C1 adjective #23,424 most common

periphrastic

Examples

1

had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression

2

A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.

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