circumlocutory

• She tells me simultaneously that I don't do enough and that everything I do is wrong, and she is annoyingly verbose and circumlocutory, and she feels superior to me because she's an artist unlike me. —  What Now?
• From there, they clambered up the next step into the living room and continued their circumlocutory perambulations, indifferent to the routine movements of my family. —  newsday.co.tt
• This was diffuse and circumlocutory, like the first. —  On the Stairs
• It expressed itself enigmatically; it was circumlocutory, sad, and mysterious Little Fairy was so pleased with his visit to Redman's Farm to-day. —  Wylder's Hand
• Certainly I was born under Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like. —  The Caxtons — Volume 12

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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