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periphrastic, adj.
more info roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
<adj.all>

ambagious circumlocutious circumlocutory periphrastic

sample sentences

"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)
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
circumlocution circumlocution
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
periphrasis
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
ambage
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similar to
indirect