ambagious English

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ambagious

— adjective (= circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; ; ; ('ambagious' is archaic) 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

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ambagious English » English

circumlocutory

roundabout

periphrastic

circumlocutious

circuitous

winding

vicarious

mediate

inexplicit

indirect

backhanded