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English to English adjective
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Expressing, or expressed, in more words than are necessary; characterized by periphrase; circumlocutory. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | | Example: 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.
source: wordnet30
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