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1
deliberate evasion in speech
- rather than answering the question directly, he resorted to circumlocution, which made her suspect that he was hiding something
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2
the use of too many words to express an idea
- your papers have to be five pages long, but that's five pages of substance, not circumlocution
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The first known use of circumlocution was circa 1518
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