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How to use circumlocution in a sentence

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In order to refer to the activity denoted by the F-word, it is necessary to engage in circumlocution or periphrasis.
Large bureaucracies seem to inherently foster a culture that favours circumlocution, jargon and euphemism.
In order to refer to that activity, it is necessary to engage in circumlocution or periphrasis.
There was a good deal of rhetoric, circumlocution and imprecision in language.
Despite the circumlocution used, the parties all appeared to understand one another.
The Navajo language is complex, and through circumlocution the Code Talkers made it even more so.
What was being said was close to an imputation, and members cannot get around rules against unparliamentary language by circumlocution.
O'Neill, despite his apparent affability and a tendency to circumlocution, is a tough little nut.
Americans, in particular the US military-industrial complex, are masters of jargon and circumlocution, but they can't be blamed for everything.
The replies I got were pure circumlocution and double talk, nowadays referred to as spin.
Alas, for every valuable insight which emerges, we find a greater proportion of heady rhetoric and circumlocution.
Her style can only be described as hectoring, irritating and occasionally maddening in its circumlocution.
The company has dispensed with traditional legal circumlocution with its latest court filings against its rival.
He is witty, he puns, and sometimes he employs the polysyllabic circumlocution of the nineteenth-century humorists.
Other common strategies used to save face for others include the use of circumlocution and equivocation when criticism of another's performance is unavoidable.
Even without government circumlocution, enough was fuzzy about the deal to have investors worried.
If anything, her style can only be described as hectoring, more sniping than frontal attack, irritating and occasionally maddening in its circumlocution.
He produced yet another quite captivating display of loquacious circumlocution as he tackled questions from the press about the way he has run the team recently.
Strong words, for a country where circumlocution is the norm, and probably very influential ones, given that the monarchy still commands immense reverence.
It is unadaptable to subtlety or circumlocution.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There was not the slightest flavour of the circumlocution Office about their proceedings.
It was because the word could only be translated by a circumlocution that I ventured to Anglicize it.
He defined the nature and crime of treason with elaboration and circumlocution.
You are the levers of the circumlocution Office, and the rulers of men.
Holmes, and I have taken you at your word, for I have now told you everything without an attempt at circumlocution or concealment.
Too anxious to waste time in circumlocution, she turned the conversation at once to the delicate and doubtful subject of the lost letter.
All this is true, but the circumlocution Office went beyond it.
There is no circumlocution nor ambiguity of expression here.
Sometimes, angry spirits attacked the circumlocution Office.
Records, statistics, documents, failing which France would have been ruined, circumlocution, without which there could be no advance, increased, multiplied, and grew majestic.
After sufficient cogitation he broke silence, and it certainly could not be objected that he used any needless circumlocution, or failed to speak directly to the purpose.
He spoke without circumlocution, and his tone was graver than usual.
Polite circumlocution would be evidently thrown away on Mrs.
The Barnacle family had for some time helped to administer the Circumlocution Office.
Mr Barnacle dated from a better time, when the country was not so parsimonious and the Circumlocution Office was not so badgered.
The Circumlocution Department,' said Mr Barnacle, 'is not responsible for any gentleman's assumptions.
Because the Circumlocution Office went on mechanically, every day, keeping this wonderful, all-sufficient wheel of statesmanship, How not to do it, in motion.
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