circumlocution 的定义
- a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
- a roundabout expression.
circumlocution 近义词
indirect speech
更多circumlocution例句
- On Monday, Mitt Romney stumbled into another ugly-yet-true circumlocution.
- Mr. Kedge, without any circumlocution, asked whether he remembered any clerk of the name of Gordon having been in the house.
- I took him outside the camp and without any circumlocution related the facts concerning his sister and Kirst.
- He always disdained circumlocution, prided himself upon the directness and simplicity of his address.
- The Polish composer Sowinski declared without circumlocution that Chopin "wrote admirably for the orchestra."
- I have little time and no taste for circumlocution; I cannot conceal from myself that I am no favorite with your sister.