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circumlocution
noun
(cir-cum-lo-cu-tion)
a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
Synonyms:
ambage
,
periphrasis
,
circumlocution
noun
(cir-cum-lo-cu-tion)
an indirect way of expressing something
Synonyms:
indirect expression,
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circumlocution
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indirect expression
,
periphrasis
,
prolixity
,
obfuscation
,
doublespeak
,
wordiness
,
locution
,
indirectness
,
phraseology
,
mot juste
,
verbiage
,
split infinitive
,
bureaucratese
,
malapropism
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declarative sentence
,
newspeak
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sophistries
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journalese
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tautologies
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ambage
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politesse
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pedantry
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terseness
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sophistic
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dissimulation
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sophist
,
subjunctive
,
buncombe
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ingratiation
,
grandiloquence
,
grammarian
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euphemisms
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poesy
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dissembling
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diphthong
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lexis
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loquacity
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casuistry
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speciousness
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obtuseness
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disingenuity
,
monosyllable
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punctiliousness
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ironist
,
flummery
,
prevaricator
,
metafiction
,
pithiness
,
indirection
,
subjunctive mood
,
explications
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didacticism
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shavian
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koans
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periphrase
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bafflegab
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wishfulness
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furtiveness
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commonplaces
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versification
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pompousness
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participle
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hairsplitting
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antonym
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etymologies
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facetiousness
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panegyric
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verbosity
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gerund
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delphic
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nabokovian
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hyperboles
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succinctness
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inscrutability
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jargons
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archaisms
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inarticulateness
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misquotation
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solecism
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imposture
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persiflage
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jabberwocky
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elide
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impenetrability
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rhetorician
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taciturnity
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slyness
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idee fixe
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chiasmus
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subterfuges
,
apologia
,
gobbledegook
,
logorrhea
,
antidisestablishmentarianism
,
rephrasing
,
cajolery
,
peevishness
,
karl von clausewitz
,
crudities
,
opera buffa
,
circumlocution
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