Words with a similar base: circumlocutious

'circumlocutious'
[circumlocutious.s.01] as in: roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; ; -T.S.Eliot;
(`ambagious' is archaic)


Examples:
had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression
A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.





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