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circumlocutoryadjective using or containing more words than necessary to express an ideathe studio's statement that "the film's earnings did not live up to expectations" was a circumlocutory admission that the movie was a flop circuitous, diffuse, garrulous, logorrheic, long-winded, pleonastic, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy chatty, communicative, conversational, gabby, loquacious, talkative, talky, volubleperiphrasticredundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologousembellished, embroidered, exaggeratedbombastic, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, highfalutin(also hifalutin) compact, concise, crisp, pithy, succinct, terse brief, shortaphoristic, epigrammatic, sententiouscompendious, summaryabbreviated, abridged, condensed, shortenedabrupt, blunt, brusque(also brusk), curt, laconic, snippy |