| 单词 | circumlocutory |
| 释义 | circumlocutory (once / 179081 pages) adj WORD FAMILY circumlocutory USAGE EXAMPLESThe German language, famed for its sprawling compound nouns, has lost its most circumlocutory term. BBC(Jun 04, 2013) "Shall I give you the circumlocutory account of the matter?" asked Horse Shoe, "or did you wish me to go into the particulars?" Kennedy, John Pendleton, Horse-Shoe Robinson—A Tale of the T...(2010) Allusions were made to it in a circumlocutory style: "The place you know—a certain street—at the bottom of the Bridges." Flaubert, Gustave, Sentimental Education, Volume II—Th...(2010) adj roundabout and unnecessarily wordy Syn ambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic indirect extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action |
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