circumlocution
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circumlocution |
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ambages, anfractuosity, circling, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambages, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation,
circumbendibus, circumflexion, circummigration, circumnavigation, circumvolution, convolution, crinkle, crinkling, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, excursion, excursus, flexuosity, flexuousness, gyre, gyring, indirection, intorsion, involution, meander, meandering, obliqueness, orbit, orbiting, periphrase, periphrasis,
pleonasm, redundancy, rivulation, roundabout, roundaboutness, rounding, sinuation, sinuosity, sinuousness, slinkiness, snakiness, spiral, spiraling, tautology, torsion, tortility, tortuosity, tortuousness, turn, turning, twisting, undulation, verbality,
wave, waving, wheeling,
winding
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Main entries similar to: circumlocution
ambages, circling, circuitry, circularity, circulation,
crinkle, deviation, digression, excursion, figure of speech,
gobbledegook, gyre, indirection, involution, malapropism, meander, meandering, metaphor, orbit, orbiting, redundancy, roundabout, simile, speech, spiral, spiraling, tautology, torsion, turning, twisting, verbiage, wave, waving,
winding
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