ambagious Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. adjective satellite roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; (`ambagious' is archaic)
   periphrastic; circumlocutory; circumlocutious.
   
   • 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

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