circumlocutious 1

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Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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Definicja

roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

  • 1.(`ambagious' is archaic)
  • 2.A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.-T.S.Eliot
  • 3.had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression
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