Resource: wordnet/30/adj/circumlocutious_5_00_00_indirect_02

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rdfs:commentroundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "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) ('en' language string)
rdfs:labelambagious ('en' language string)
rdfs:labelcircumlocutious ('en' language string)
rdfs:labelcircumlocutory ('en' language string)
rdfs:labelperiphrastic ('en' language string)
lvont:labellexvo:term/eng/ambagious
lvont:labellexvo:term/eng/circumlocutious
lvont:labellexvo:term/eng/circumlocutory
lvont:labellexvo:term/eng/periphrastic
lvont:nearlySameAshttp://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/synset-circumlocutious-adjectivesatellite-1
skos:noteThis resource corresponds to the meaning of the gloss text. It shares its meaning with that of the synonym set rather than denoting the WordNet synset. ('en' language string)

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