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verbal evasion

  • as incircumlocution

Synonyms for verbal evasion

  • diffuseness
  • discursiveness
  • euphemism
  • indirectness
  • periphrasis
  • pleonasm
  • prolixity
  • roundabout
  • tautology
  • verbiage
  • wordiness
  • beating around the bush
  • circumambages
  • gassiness
  • periphrase
  • verbality
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Antonyms for verbal evasion

  • conciseness
  • directness
  • straightforwardness
  • terseness
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circumlocution

nounindirect speech
  • beating around the bush
  • circumambages
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  • discursiveness
  • euphemism
  • gassiness
  • indirectness
  • periphrase
  • periphrasis
  • pleonasm
  • prolixity
  • roundabout
  • tautology
  • verbal evasion
  • verbality
  • verbiage
  • wordiness
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