circumlocutory

释义

adj.（行文说话等）委婉曲折的，迂回的

词态变化

名词 :   circumlocution ;

实用场景例句

I entered the village by the little circumlocutory lane.

我由一条迂回曲折的小径进了村。

辞典例句

英英释义

Adjective

1. roundabout and unnecessarily wordy;

"had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"

"A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)