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.-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious is archaic)

[ Syn: circumlocutious , circumlocutory , periphrastic ]