"had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"
"A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)
circumlocutory 片语
片语
derious迂回的
indirect间接的;迂回的;非直截了当的
circumlocutory 例句
英汉例句
I entered the village by the little circumlocutory lane.