Adjective:
roundabout 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.
近义词 ambagious迂远的periphrastic迂回曲折的circumlocutory委婉曲折的