circumlocutionary

Ted cried, when my father, with some circumlocutionary hesitancy and great delicacy, conveyed his decision to our factotum.

You will no more listen to one of the old circumlocutionary conversers than you would travel by the waggon, or make a voyage in a collier.

The fashionable rhetoric of philosophical liberalism is as incomprehensible to him as the flowery circumlocutionary style of an Oriental scribe would be to a keen city merchant.