periphrastic
Example Sentences
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But it seems to this reader, Rebecca becoming Maud also speaks to the preoccupation of this entire book: the periphrastic construction of identity itself.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
He misrepresents, distorts, bisects sentences and employs periphrastic phrases to make his points.
From Time Magazine Archive
Adj. diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent†, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome†, long-winded, longspun†, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious†, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
"I won't press the analogy, but I will say that those who are themselves periphrastic should avoid criticising others for being ambaginous."
From The Inventions of the Idiot by John Kendrick Bangs
But its fault even in that part is that he confounds the genius of the English language, making it periphrastic and literal, instead of elliptical and idiomatic.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
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