Words and phrases that have a meaning related to circumlocutions: (119 results)
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Also try:archaisms, grandiloquence, tautologies, euphemisms, delphic, etymologies, mot juste, prolixity, journalese, locution, weasel words, wordiness, bureaucratese, casuistry, subjunctive, sophistries, explications, bons mots, prose, lexis, dissembling, idee fixe, flummery, orotund, nabokovian, phraseology, crudities, sophist, commonplaces, fictions, apercus, similes, bon mot, wishfulness, verbiage, infelicities, koans, exegeses, dissimulation, drivelling, stratagems, disingenuity, hairsplitting, ineloquent, doublespeak, pedantry, inarticulateness, sophistic, epigrams, insubstantiality, refutations, mendacities, bafflegab, subterfuges, tendentiousness, split infinitive, sarcasms, metaphors, syllogisms, dilettantism, evasions, phantasms, platitudes, ukase, punctiliousness, hyperboles, persiflage, malapropism, didacticism, hectoring, gallimaufry, banalities, solecism, moralizing, newspeak, superciliousness, verbosity, attitudinizing, literalism, disquisitions, hieratic, buncombe, pithier, terseness, allusions, obfuscation, pompousness, jabberwocky, monosyllable, fustiness, historicism, gobbledygook, speciousness, diphthongs, tu quoque, guttersnipe, inexactitude, politesse, barbarisms, sophistical, interrogative, metafiction, circumlocution, detours, periphrasis, compliments, panegyrics, apologies, digressions, disguises, preliminaries, contrivances, formalities, embellishments, indirection, neologisms, eulogies, excuses, footnotes
— Adjectives for circumlocutions: many, such, various, elaborate, long, awkward, clumsy, polite, tedious, cumbersome, usual, more...
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