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What does circumlocutionary mean?

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Adjective
  1. Articulated in a roundabout manner; tautological or with repetitive language.
  2. (of speech) Evasive, avoiding difficult questions or key points.
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Ted cried, when my father, with some circumlocutionary hesitancy and great delicacy, conveyed his decision to our factotum.
The history may be a little skewed, and the speeches necessarily circumlocutionary, but Oyelowo keeps our attention focused on the real story in triumphant fashion.

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