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Circumlocutory

//sɜː.kəm.ləʊˈkjuː.tə.ɹi// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Characterised by circumlocution; overly wordy

    "1727, Jonathan Swift (attributed), Martinus Scriblerus, or the Art of Sinking In Poetry Periphrase is another great aid to prolixity; being a diffused circumlocutory manner of expressing a known idea, which should be so mysteriously couched, as to give the reader the pleasure of guessing what it is, that the author can possibly mean; and a strange surprise, when he finds it."

Adjective
  1. 1
    roundabout and unnecessarily wordy wordnet

Etymology

From circumlocution + -ory; compare Medieval Latin circumlocūtōrius from Classical Latin circumlocūtiō.

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