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circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious(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)

using or containing more words than necessary to express an idea

the studio's statement that "the film's earnings did not live up to expectations" was a circumlocutory admission that the movie was a flop

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