CIRCUMLOCUTIOUS

• (adj.) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

  "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression", "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."

  synonyms : ambagious , circumlocutory , periphrastic

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