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单词 circumlocution
释义 Noun: circumlocution  `surkumlow'kyooshun
  1. A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
    - periphrasis, ambage [archaic] 
  2. An indirect way of expressing something
    - indirect expression

Derived forms: circumlocutions

See also: circumlocutious

Type of: equivocation, evasion, verboseness, verbosity

Encyclopedia: Circumlocution

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