An indirect way of expressing something.
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Examples for "circumlocution"
Examples for "circumlocution"
1Pope dislikes a simple term and loves a circumlocution and an abstraction.
2He defined the nature and crime of treason with elaboration and circumlocution.
3The first is that it uses circumlocution rather than short straight speech.
4So without circumlocution she went and offered to take the sinking child.
5All your circumlocution and your fine words are simply an additional insult.
1Was the old man's thoughtful offer of hospitality another indirect expression of the natural human distress which he perversely concealed?
2A South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman played down the commentary, calling it "an indirect expression of the North's various grievances."
3"It is rather singular that he should be absent at this particular time," said Markland, giving indirect expression to his own intruding suspicions.
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