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circumlocution
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circumlocution

Roundabout, verbose way of speaking or writing when someone tries to appear impressive or is being deliberately unclear, perhaps to disguise the truth.

Charles Dickens in the novel Little Dorrit, 1857, invented the Circumlocution Office as a satirical representation of a typical government department.
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It is worth noting that Apuleius's word ambages was the Latin word most often used for the windings and blind alleys of labyrinths.
Labyrinth dances in the French and English Renaissance by Greene, Thomas M. / Renaissance Quarterly
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