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Word | Circumlocution |
a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things / The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few / indirect or roundabout expression / the use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive. / the use of many words to say something that could be said more clearly and directly by using fewer words, | |
Usage | ⇒ He was afraid to call a spade a spade and resorted to circumlocutions to avoid direct reference to his subject. ⇒ He was criticized for his use of circumlocution. ⇒ his admission came after years of circumlocution |
Synonyms | verbiage, periphrasis, redundancy, tautology, wordiness, ambage, pleonasm, periphrase, verbosity, ambages, circumambages, indirect expression, prolixity, roundabout, speech, digression, euphemism, obliqueness, verbality, allocution, |
Antonyms | bluntness, conciseness, directness, straightforwardness, artlessness, austerity, brevity, candidness, candor, candour, clarity, clearness, concision, correctness, decency, ease, easiness, explicitness, fairness, faith, |
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