circumlocutory in English

adjective
1
using many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive; long-winded.
he has a meandering, circumlocutory speaking style
adjective

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1. Ambagious: Circumlocutory; tedious

2. 3 synonyms for Ambagious: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic

3. 3 synonyms for Ambagious: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic

4. Circuitous: adjective ambagious , anfractuous , anguine , circumfluent , circumlocutory , complicated , contorted , convoluted , crooked , curved , deviating

5. Antonyms for Aphoristic include circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy and lengthy

6. Indirect, rambling, roundabout, meandering, devious, oblique, circuitous, circumlocutory, periphrastic In a Backhanded way, he raises yet another objection.

7. Synonyms: Ambagious; circumlocutious; circumlocutory; periphrastic Context example: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one …

8. Ambagious: 1 adj roundabout and unnecessarily wordy “(` Ambagious ' is archaic)” Synonyms: circumlocutious , circumlocutory , periphrastic indirect extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action

9. Circumjacently circumjovial circumjovials circumlental circumlenticular circumlittoral circumlocute circumlocution circumlocutional: circumlocutionary circumlocutions circumlocutious circumlocutory circumlunar circummandibular (current term) circummandibular fixation circummeridian circummultiple circummur'd: circummure circummured circummures

10. Ambagious ( adj.) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "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: circumlocutious / circumlocutory / periphrastic

11. Adj Ambagious roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; (`Ambagious' is archaic) "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"