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Definition of the day : « circumlocutory »

  • As in indirect : adj roundabout; unintended
  • As in oblique : adj indirect, evasive
  • As in roundabout : adj indirect
  • As in verbose : adj wordy, long-winded
  • As in diffuse : adj wordy
Example sentences :
  • Herbert has a circumlocutory manner over the phone which irritates me.
  • Extract from : « Sight Unseen » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • To come to the point, without any circumlocutory delay, I am a young man with aspirations far above my station in life.
  • Extract from : « Ruth Hall » by Fanny Fern
  • Allusions were made to it in a circumlocutory style: "The place you know—a certain street—at the bottom of the Bridges."
  • Extract from : « Sentimental Education, Volume II » by Gustave Flaubert
  • Certainly I was born under Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.
  • Extract from : « The Caxtons, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • The practice thus forced upon one in employing a Chinese servant is useful in preventing a circumlocutory habit of speech.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI. No. 23. » by Various
  • Another lot sneered at this circumlocutory and unsatisfactory process of argument.
  • Extract from : « Secret Service or Recollections of a City Detective » by Andrew Forrester
  • He hears real discussion; he learns to pick men for higher work; and saves many hours of circumlocutory writing.
  • Extract from : « Human Nature In Politics » by Graham Wallas
  • It is only thus that we can become free—by a circumlocutory process of self-abnegation, self-sacrifice and self-annihilation.
  • Extract from : « Discourses of Keidansky » by Bernard G. Richards
  • Certainly I was born under the Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 402, April, 1849 » by Various
  • Stammering becomes more eloquent than oratory, a child's impulsiveness wiser than circumlocutory experience.
  • Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore