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What does circumlocutory mean?

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Adjective
  1. Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic; verbose.
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After 20 years in the Senate, he has developed a meandering, circumlocutory speaking style.
He expresses simple ideas in weird, circumlocutory ways, showing special fondness for multiple negatives.
Breakfast rooms across India display a vista of glazed eyes ploughing wearily through the turgid, circumlocutory language of the morning papers.
Certainly I was born under the Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.
Circumnavigators circumstantiate their comings and goings in a magazine, The Log, which does some things in a circumlocutory way.
However circumlocutory, it was enough for India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, to take umbrage.

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