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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