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a manner of speaking that uses more words than necessary to evoke a certain meaning
circumlocution, periphrasis, ambage(noun)a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
the use of too many words to express an ideacongressional hearings into the Watergate scandal were marked by an orgy of periphrasis, the expression "at this point in time" being a memorable example
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