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) Synonym(s):circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious
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