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Circumlocutory Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ory

Circumlocutory has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

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."

2

Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic; verbose.

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ory cory rory sory lory dory gory jory pory frory flory emory atory glory chory story moory amory armory memory
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