1. Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
   "had a preference for circumlocutious rather than forthright expression"
   - circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious [archaic]

See also: circumlocution, indirect

• mix in
• mix-up
• mixable
• mixed
• mixed bag
• mixed blessing
• mixed bud
• mixed doubles
• mixed drink
• mixed economy
• mixed farming
• mixed marriage
• mixed metaphor
• mixed nuisance
• mixed-blood
• mixed-up
• mixer
• mixing
• mixing bowl
• mixing faucet
• mixologist
• mixology
• Mixtec
• mixture
• mizen