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  1. circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagiousadjective

    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."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)

    Synonyms:
    ambagious, periphrastic, circumlocutory

    Antonyms:
    direct

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