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 circumlocutory
 (a.)委婉曲折的,迂迴的

 Cir·cum·loc·u·to·ry a. Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic.
    The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order.   --Chambers's Journal.
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 circumlocutory
      adj : roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "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; (`ambagious' is archaic) [syn: circumlocutious,
             periphrastic, ambagious]