(s)circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagiousroundabout 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))