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What is a circumlocution?

What is a circumlocution? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
  2. A roundabout expression.
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The replies I got were pure circumlocution and double talk, nowadays referred to as spin.
Large bureaucracies seem to inherently foster a culture that favours circumlocution, jargon and euphemism.
What was being said was close to an imputation, and members cannot get around rules against unparliamentary language by circumlocution.
The Navajo language is complex, and through circumlocution the Code Talkers made it even more so.
Despite the circumlocution used, the parties all appeared to understand one another.
There was a good deal of rhetoric, circumlocution and imprecision in language.

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