circumlocutory / ˌsɜr kəm loʊˈkyu ʃən /

旁敲侧击周边旁证旁敲侧击的

circumlocutory 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
  2. a roundabout expression.

circumlocutory 近义词

circumlocutory

等同于 indirect

circumlocutory

等同于 oblique

circumlocutory

等同于 roundabout

circumlocutory

等同于 verbose

circumlocutory

等同于 diffuse

更多circumlocutory例句

  1. To come to the point, without any circumlocutory delay, I am a young man with aspirations far above my station in life.
  2. It will require perhaps a little circumlocutory exposition to show this, but here it is.
  3. Certainly I was born under Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.
  4. He hears real discussion; he learns to pick men for higher work; and saves many hours of circumlocutory writing.
  5. It is only thus that we can become free—by a circumlocutory process of self-abnegation, self-sacrifice and self-annihilation.