Circumlocutious

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  circumlocutious
       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: {circumlocutory},
              {periphrastic}, {ambagious}]