Definition of "circumlocutionary" []

• Articulated in a roundabout manner; tautological or with repetitive language. (adjective)
• Evasive, avoiding difficult questions or key points. (adjective)

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• "Kipling favours concreteness and concentration; empty abstractions and circumlocutionary descriptions are wholly absent from his works."
• "The fashionable rhetoric of philosophical liberalism is as incomprehensible to him as the flowery circumlocutionary style of an Oriental scribe would be to a keen city merchant."
• "You will no more listen to one of the old circumlocutionary conversers than you would travel by the waggon, or make a voyage in a collier."