Thesaurus / circumlocution
FEEDBACKHow to use circumlocution in a sentence
Mr. Kedge, without any circumlocution, asked whether he remembered any clerk of the name of Gordon having been in the house.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODI took him outside the camp and without any circumlocution related the facts concerning his sister and Kirst.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTERHe always disdained circumlocution, prided himself upon the directness and simplicity of his address.
AT LASTMARION HARLANDThe Polish composer Sowinski declared without circumlocution that Chopin "wrote admirably for the orchestra."
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKSI have little time and no taste for circumlocution; I cannot conceal from myself that I am no favorite with your sister.
BARRINGTONCHARLES JAMES LEVERHe got his message out bunglingly, with embarrassed circumlocution and repetition; but this was what it came to in the end.
THE QUALITY OF MERCYW. D. HOWELLSOne gathers, indeed, that the art of running a Circumlocution Office is carried to a high pitch in the political sphere.
AMERICA TO-DAY, OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONSWILLIAM ARCHERBut he considered "that the time had now come to express it without any perambulation or circumlocution."
THE FOURTH ESTATE, VOL.1ARMANDO PALACIO VALDSYours without ambiguity, circumlocution, or mental reservation.
LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF DAVID HUME, VOLUME II (OF 2)JOHN HILL BURTONThis, indeed, in part explains why there was so much apparently useless circumlocution in the early stages of the project.
THE PANAMA CANALFREDERIC JENNINGS HASKINWORDS RELATED TO CIRCUMLOCUTION
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