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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 circumlocutory
 (a.)委婉曲折的,迂迴的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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]