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circumlocució

An indirect way of expressing something.

        circunlóquio
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        Examples for "circumlocution"
        1
        Pope dislikes a simple term and loves a circumlocution and an abstraction.
        Halleck's New English Literature
        2
        He defined the nature and crime of treason with elaboration and circumlocution.
        The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance
        3
        The first is that it uses circumlocution rather than short straight speech.
        On the Art of Writing / Lectures delivered in the University of ...
        4
        So without circumlocution she went and offered to take the sinking child.
        Mary Barton
        5
        All your circumlocution and your fine words are simply an additional insult.
        The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)
        Uso de indirect expression em inglês
        1
        Was the old man's thoughtful offer of hospitality another indirect expression of the natural human distress which he perversely concealed?
        No Name
        2
        A South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman played down the commentary, calling it "an indirect expression of the North's various grievances."
        Reuters
        3
        "It is rather singular that he should be absent at this particular time," said Markland, giving indirect expression to his own intruding suspicions.
        The Good Time Coming
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