circumlocutory

The challenge for the novice was to spot the bogus stuff, but Mikey deliberately made it harder by being coy and circumlocutory about genuine matters too.

It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010

Which brings me, by a circumlocutory route to be sure, to some recent eruptions about yours truly by that petulant chihuahua Kathy Shaidle.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

The tautological, circumlocutory argument of American Exceptionalism can be stated thusly: “We are on a providentially inspired mission and are guided by a ‘Higher Power’, therefore whatever our actions or policies, we cannot be in the wrong.”

American Exceptionalism 2008

The rest of us, who find her circumlocutory speech patterns as abrasive as nails on a blackboard, are doomed to a future of listening to her butcher the English language.

CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2008 2008

Which brings me, by a circumlocutory route to be sure, to some recent eruptions about yours truly by that petulant chihuahua Kathy Shaidle.

Freedom from speech... 2008

But when I came to praise a faux professor of circumlocutory nonsense had razed the image immaculate – leaving a specious burst of wretched toadying.

Silence As Magnanimous Respect Ivan Donn Carswell 2007

“I have the distinct pleasure …,” he began in his droll, circumlocutory, Austrian-sounding speech.

Kipnis and Perel: A Literary Submission 2006

“I have the distinct pleasure …,” he began in his droll, circumlocutory, Austrian-sounding speech.

Kipnis and Perel: A Literary Submission 2006

“I have the distinct pleasure …,” he began in his droll, circumlocutory, Austrian-sounding speech.

Kipnis and Perel: A Literary Submission 2006

“I have the distinct pleasure …,” he began in his droll, circumlocutory, Austrian-sounding speech.

Kipnis and Perel: A Literary Submission 2006