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circumlocution

English

  1. 🔊 an indirect way of expressing something
  2. 🔊 a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things

Spanish

  1. 🔊 circunlocución circumlocution
  2. 🔊 circunloquio circumlocution
  3. 🔊 ambages circumlocution, ambages (indirect or roundabout ways of talking)

Similar words

indirect expression periphrasis ambage ambages anfractuosity circling circuition circuitousness circuitry circularity circulation circumambages circumambience circumambiency circumambulation circumbendibus circumflexion circummigration circumnavigation circumvolution convolution crinkle crinkling deviance