Crossword-Solution: CIRCUMLOCUTION 14 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 22

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.