An indirect way of expressing something.
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Examples for "circumlocution "
Examples for "circumlocution "
1 Pope dislikes a simple term and loves a circumlocution and an abstraction.
2 He defined the nature and crime of treason with elaboration and circumlocution .
3 The first is that it uses circumlocution rather than short straight speech.
4 So without circumlocution she went and offered to take the sinking child.
5 All your circumlocution and your fine words are simply an additional insult.
1 Was the old man's thoughtful offer of hospitality another indirect expression of the natural human distress which he perversely concealed?
2 A 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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