|  circumlocution 
 
 1. a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
 • Syn:
 periphrasis, ambage
 • Derivationally related forms:
 ambagious (for: ambage), periphrastic (for: periphrasis), circumlocutious
 • Hypernyms:
 verboseness, verbosity
 2. an indirect way of expressing something
 • Syn:
 indirect expression
 • Derivationally related forms:
 circumlocutious
 • Hypernyms:
 evasion, equivocation
 
 
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