circumlocutory 1
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Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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AngielskiDefinicja
roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
Przykłady
- 1.had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression
- 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.(`ambagious' is archaic)
