circumlocutionary

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The fashionable rhetoric of philosophical liberalism is as incomprehensible to him as the flowery circumlocutionary style of an Oriental scribe would be to a keen city merchant.

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  1. Circumlocutional; roundabout; periphrastic. The fashionable rhetoric of philosophical liberalism is as incomprehensible to him [the Russian peasant] as the flowery circumlocutionary style of an Oriental scribe would be to a keen city merchant. D. M. Wallace, Russia, p. 500. Circumlocutionary euphemisms for things which, though natural, are rarely named. T. Inman, Symbolism, Int., p. xiii.

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  • You will no more listen to one of the old circumlocutionary conversers than you would travel by the waggon, or make a voyage in a collier. —  Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
  • The fashionable rhetoric of philosophical liberalism is as incomprehensible to him as the flowery circumlocutionary style of an Oriental scribe would be to a keen city merchant. —  Russia
 

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