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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "circumlocution" in a sentence

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    circumlocution


    1. The paper was nothing less than a legal demand, in two and a half pages of circumlocution, for a two-third share in all Caleb’s assets


    2. engaged, and intimated, though with sufficient delicacy and circumlocution, the expediency of bestowing on their relative a portion of that wisdom for which they were so renowned


    3. "Sir," said Madame de Saint-Meran, without using any circumlocution, and as if fearing she had no time to lose, "you wrote to me concerning the marriage of this child?"


    4. Also, without being actually positive, it struck him a great field was to be opened up in the line of opening up new routes to keep pace with the times apropos of the Fishguard-Rosslare route which, it was mooted, was once more on the tapis in the circumlocution departments with the usual quantity of red tape and dillydallying of effete fogeydom and dunderheads generally


    5. Holmes, and I have taken you at your word, for I have now told you everything without an attempt at circumlocution or concealment


    6. This was the act which we found already passed when we came into power—I do not wish to be arrogant, but say we to save circumlocution


    7. It is not for any man who then professed them, by any guise or circumlocution, to conceal apostacy from them, for they are there—there in the book


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    Synonyms for "circumlocution"

    circumlocution indirect expression ambage periphrasis tautology verbiage wordiness redundancy verbosity

    "circumlocution" definitions

    a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things


    an indirect way of expressing something