circumlocutory

“You know,” I thought to myself during one of the many circumlocutory and not-particularly-funny sequences in Life After Beth, “this is probably some sort of metaphor about the universal desire to retain one’s youth.”

Isn't it astonishing, for example, how, once elected, MPs continue the daft traditions of jeering, guffawing and addressing their colleagues by ridiculous circumlocutory terms such as "the right honourable member"?

The German language, famed for its sprawling compound nouns, has lost its most circumlocutory term.

The findings from these plodding crustaceans' cerebrums might seem circumlocutory, but, the researchers contend, they provide a new model for how these key early actions are organized in the brains of many animals.

"Shall I give you the circumlocutory account of the matter?" asked Horse Shoe, "or did you wish me to go into the particulars?"