circumlocutious

Adjective
  1. Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy (synset 300771186)
    "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."
    similar to: indirect - extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
    same as: ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic

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