Crossword-Solution: CIRCUMLOCUTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Circumlocution | n. | The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “CIRCUMLOCUTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| USE of many words where few would do | 1 answer |
| CIRCUMBENDIBUS | 1 answer |
| The use of many words where fewer would do | 1 answer |
| roundabout method | 2 answers |
| verboseness | 17 answers |
| periphrasis | 17 answers |
| verbal effusion | 18 answers |
| using euphemisms | 18 answers |
| prolixity | 18 answers |
| verbosity | 19 answers |
| tautology | 19 answers |
| pleonasm | 19 answers |
| Verbiage | 19 answers |
| wordiness | 20 answers |
| loquacity | 25 answers |
| windiness | 25 answers |
| verbalism | 25 answers |
| diffuseness | 28 answers |
| redundancy | 36 answers |
| output | 38 answers |
| roundabout | 40 answers |
| Oration | 52 answers |
| Digression | 59 answers |
| expansion | 75 answers |
| Harangue | 79 answers |
| Office | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CIRCUMLOCUTION (5)
Holmes, and I have taken you at your word, for I have now told you everything without an attempt at circumlocution or concealment.
This time, Lyle looking confident and well coached, consulted his crib sheet and gave the answer without circumlocution.
Then I experienced great pain at seeing the reserve, the circumlocution, the figures, and the irony to which a professor of legislation, whose duty it is to teach dogmas with clearness and precision, was forced to resort; and I fell to cursing the society in which an honest man is not allowed to say frankly what he thinks.
They could easier do without his services in the Circumlocution Office, than they can tolerate his fractious spirits.
Now and then he would call on me in London; and, with a face full of theatrical woe, tell me, with elaborate circumlocution, how the Earl of This, or the Marquis of That, had implored him to take charge of young Lord So-and-So, his son; who, as all the world knew, had—well, had ‘no guts in his brains.’ Was there ever such a chance? Just consider what it must lead to! Everybody knew—no, nobody knew—the enormous number of idiots there were in noble families.
Quotes with CIRCUMLOCUTION (2)
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.
I use circumlocution too often, and instead of getting my point across, I tend to babble.