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Definition of circumlocutory in English: circumlocutoryadjective ˌsəːkəmˈlɒkjʊt(ə)riˌsərkəmˈlɑkjəˌtɔri Using many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive; long-winded. he has a meandering, circumlocutory speaking style Example sentencesExamples - After 20 years in the Senate, he has developed a meandering, circumlocutory speaking style.
- Other television station announcers had been less circumlocutory in declaring the result.
- Breakfast rooms across India display a vista of glazed eyes ploughing wearily through the turgid, circumlocutory language of the morning papers.
- Joe's conversational exchanges with the convalescent Pip are hilariously circumlocutory.
- His theories are often circumlocutory and warped.
Synonyms periphrastic, circuitous, indirect, roundabout tautological, repetitive, repetitious, diffuse, discursive, long-winded, prolix, verbose, wordy, rambling, wandering, tortuous rare pleonastic, circumlocutionary, ambagious
Definition of circumlocutory in US English: circumlocutoryadjectiveˌsərkəmˈläkyəˌtôrēˌsərkəmˈlɑkjəˌtɔri Using many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive; long-winded. he has a meandering, circumlocutory speaking style Example sentencesExamples - His theories are often circumlocutory and warped.
- Other television station announcers had been less circumlocutory in declaring the result.
- Joe's conversational exchanges with the convalescent Pip are hilariously circumlocutory.
- After 20 years in the Senate, he has developed a meandering, circumlocutory speaking style.
- Breakfast rooms across India display a vista of glazed eyes ploughing wearily through the turgid, circumlocutory language of the morning papers.
Synonyms periphrastic, circuitous, indirect, roundabout
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