circumlocutory

The military was usually circumlocutory about a problem it hadn't solved.

Baldwin started in a circumlocutory way, but he appears eventually to have been fairly blunt.

Why does he seem to equate circumlocutory pomposity with profundity?

He began in the dithering, circumlocutory way that has become a part of the flavor of our business.

In this sense, the vast majority of definitions found in dictionaries are circumlocutory.

There is a circumlocutory path used by pilgrims to do parikrama around the temple.

Riddles, for example, are circumlocutory poetic games.

Khanh's quartet of delegates responded to Taylor in a circumlocutory way.

Kiedis writes in his typical circumlocutory style, which some find excessively cryptic.

Euphemism, however, is only sometimes circumlocutory.

Otso, the spirit of bear (one of many circumlocutory epithets).

An innocuous, inoffensive or circumlocutory term or phrase for something unpleasant or obscene.

Amphilogism (also called amphilogy) or equivocation is a form of circumlocutory speech.

No, I am dealing with the Foreign Secretary, who gave me a circumlocutory reply to a question that I did not ask him.

Kontio is a Finnish circumlocutory epithet for bear, similar to Otso.

The Codep captain's talk was punctuated with alliterative triads and circumlocutory references, but he had a knack for making a story come to life.

'Amphilogism' (also called 'amphilogy') is a form of circumlocutory speech used to avoid telling something that might otherwise harm you.

Yet if Bush presents his ideas too bluntly for Mead's taste, some will find Mead's own presentation too circumlocutory.

The astronomer seemed pleased with the proposal, and at once commenced a verbose and somewhat circumlocutory address, of which the following summary presents the main features.

Some of the prose is ridiculous, the circumlocutory one-sentence paragraphs that sound like Micawber's twin-brother in the Home-Office.

For nervous parents there was the circumlocutory title, "Your Daughter's Mother," by R. K. Gardiner (also 10 ).

Circumnavigators circumstantiate their comings and goings in a magazine, The Log, which does some things in a circumlocutory way.

The circumlocutory path around the hill has steep rock slopes and the instability of the rock formations is attributed to the fractured and columnar joints in basaltic rocks.

This circumlocutory travel becomes unbearable for the old age and weak pilgrims and also involved 12 to 14 hours travel time instead of direct flight time of 5 hours.

Her works were not read widely, and her eccentric, over-written, "purple" circumlocutory writing style is alleged by some critics to be some of the worst prose and poetry ever written.