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n. The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language.

n. Evasion in speech or writing.

n. A roundabout expression.

n. A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.

n. A roundabout expression. See also euphemism

n. The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.

n. A roundabout way of speaking; an indirect mode of statement; particularly, a studied indirectness or evasiveness of language in speaking or writing.

n. a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

n. an indirect way of expressing something

"It comes to the same thing, no doubt, but the circumlocution is significant."

verboseness    verbosity    evasion    equivocation   

circumlocution office   

circumlocutory    locution   

circumlocutional    circumlocutionary   

periphrase    periphrasis    roundabout    indirection    ambage    circuition    circumambages    circumbendibus    beat around the bush   

pleonasm    wordiness    ambiguity    verbosity    gaudiness    illusiveness    indirectness    imitativeness    garrulity    'stationmaster'