Circumlocutions is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CIRCUMLOCUTIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• CIRCUMLOCUTION, an overly complicated means of expression
• the use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea

Words related to CIRCUMLOCUTIONS

circumlocution22

How to use CIRCUMLOCUTIONS in a sentence

• If an inferior knows that designs are formed against the life of his superior, he must use circumlocutions, and suggest the subject in vague terms and speak in enigmas.
• What circumlocutions must he not use, if he wish to give the full force of the idea! A real abuse, however, is the perpetual dictation-system still used by some.
• This entire avoidance of flattering circumlocutions, though it sometimes produces these rather startling effects, gives a peculiar raciness to rustic oratory.
• Sawyer throughout his translation substitutes vulgar Latinisms and circumlocutions for the vigorous phrases of the received version.
• A knock at the office door interrupted the circumlocutions of the prolix document.
• To avoid endless circumlocutions, I shall speak as if the spiritualistic hypothesis were proved.
• That was the truth, and she wanted to say it because, quickly, without forms or circumlocutions, it made them familiar.
• The essential point is that somebody must be at work adding new symbols and new circumlocutions to a language.
• Mathias was willing to accede that much, but certain circumlocutions in his language led Joseph to suspect that Mathias was not altogether satisfied with the Essenes.

Similar words containing LOCUTION without suffix s and without prefix circum

locution10 elocution11 locutions11 allocution12 elocutions12 illocution12 allocutions13 illocutions13 locutionary16 perlocution15 prolocution15 elocutionary17 elocutionist14 perlocutions16 prolocutions16 elocutionists15 illocutionary18 interlocution15 circumlocution22 interlocutions16 perlocutionary21

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