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Circumlocutory   Listen
Circumlocutory

adjective
1.
Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy.  Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic.  "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."






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Words linked to "Circumlocutory" :   indirect, ambagious



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