circumlocutory

Example Sentences

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“You know,” I thought to myself during one of the many circumlocutory and not-particularly-funny sequences in Life After Beth, “this is probably some sort of metaphor about the universal desire to retain one’s youth.”

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2014

Isn't it astonishing, for example, how, once elected, MPs continue the daft traditions of jeering, guffawing and addressing their colleagues by ridiculous circumlocutory terms such as "the right honourable member"?

From The Guardian • Jul. 10, 2013

The German language, famed for its sprawling compound nouns, has lost its most circumlocutory term.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2013

This, in the party's circumlocutory "Aesopian" language, was known as "colonizing."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Shall I give you the circumlocutory account of the matter?" asked Horse Shoe, "or did you wish me to go into the particulars?"

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton