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periphrastic
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- periphrastic :roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
- had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression|A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.
- periphrastic :roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
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