| ADJECTIU | all | perifràstic | roundabout and unnecessarily wordy |
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| Sentit | roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; ('ambagious' is archaic). | |
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| Anglès | circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious | |
| Espanyol | perifrástico | |
| Noms | circumlocució, circumloqui, perífrasi, perífrasis | A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things |
| circumlocució, circumloqui | An indirect way of expressing something | |
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