| 单词 | circumlocutious |
| 释义 | circumlocutious (once / 5909656 pages) adj WORD FAMILY circumlocution: circumlocutions, circumlocutious+/locution: circumlocution, locutions USAGE EXAMPLESThe late Hon. Henry Erskine met his acquaintance Jemmy Ba—four, a barrister, who dealt in hard words and circumlocutious sentences. Lemon, Mark, The Jest Book—The Choicest Anecdote...(2010) adj roundabout and unnecessarily wordy had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression Syn ambagious, circumlocutory, periphrastic indirect extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action |
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