circumlocutory
(a.)委婉曲折的,迂迴的
Cir·cum·loc·u·to·ry a. Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic.
The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. --Chambers's Journal.
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circumlocutory
adj : 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) [syn: circumlocutious,
periphrastic, ambagious]