periphrastically

Example Sentences

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Andrew stopped his loom, and, looking at August, said: "Our friend Jonas speaks somewhat periphrastically and euphuistically, and--he'll pardon me--but he speaks a little ambiguously."

From The End of the World A Love Story by Eggleston, Edward

We shall be found out; boys must be circumcised and some of the periphrastically styled 'Initiators into the Abrahamic Covenant' may spot us.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel