CIRCUMLOCUTORY
Scrabble letter values: C3I1R1C3U1M3L1O1C3U1T1O1R1Y4 = 25
Definition
- adjective roundabout and unnecessarily wordy. — synonyms: circumlocutious, periphrastic, ambagious
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.-T.S.Eliot”
- “(`ambagious' is archaic)”