circumlocution

He is a master of circumlocution, always avoiding direct answers.

Her speech was filled with unnecessary circumlocution, making it hard to understand.

The politician's circumlocution frustrated the audience, who wanted clear answers.

Using circumlocution can sometimes be seen as a way to appear more sophisticated.

The lawyer's circumlocution confused the jury, leading to a mistrial.

Avoiding circumlocution in writing can make your message more clear and concise.

The student's circumlocution in the presentation was a result of nervousness.

The professor encouraged students to avoid circumlocution and get straight to the point.

The journalist's circumlocution in the interview frustrated the interviewee, who wanted direct answers.

Using circumlocution in negotiations can sometimes be a strategic move to buy time.

His decent reticence is branded as hypocrisy, his circumlocutions are roundly called lies, and his silence is vilified as treachery.

She had a good honest glance and used no circumlocution.

Circumlocution means 'talking around something' and is assessed as a vocabulary skill.

The press told him so openly, and his friends emphasized the fact by their circumlocutions and evasions.

' Mr. Losberne, who appeared desirous of gaining time, recounted them at great length, and with much circumlocution.

The ability to use your vocabulary to describe something you don't have the exact word for is called circumlocution.

" Nothing will be gained by circumlocution, Isabel, " said Newton, a faintly malicious twinkle in his eye, in his fat precise way.

No affair had ever needed the assistance of deafness, impediments of speech, and all the incomprehensible circumlocutions with which Grandet enveloped his ideas, as much as the affair now in hand.

But though I want to talk to you about the provinces for two hundred pages, I lack the requisite barbarity to make you undergo all the long-windedness and circumlocutions of a provincial dialogue.

My measures are broken through: This order commands me to deliver up to you the Sister Agnes without delay; I am therefore obliged to inform you without circumlocution, that on Friday last, She expired'.