circumlocute

And then, after all the bullshit, when he could prevaricate, elocute, circumlocute, and evade no more, he collapsed like a paper bag emptied of air.

Stanton Peele: Public Figures Behaving Badly: Charlie Rangel, George Pataki, Sarah Palin Stanton Peele 2010

And then, after all the bullshit, when he could prevaricate, elocute, circumlocute, and evade no more, he collapsed like a paper bag emptied of air.

Stanton Peele: Public Figures Behaving Badly: Charlie Rangel, George Pataki, Sarah Palin Stanton Peele 2010

I went to her and began to circumlocute, thinking she listened

Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 6 George Meredith 1868

I went to her and began to circumlocute, thinking she listened -- she had the same eager look.

Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete George Meredith 1868

I went to her and began to circumlocute, thinking she listened -- she had the same eager look.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

The Kennedy partisans are quite a tongue-tied bunch, all of them struggling gamely, if inarticulately, to somehow dismiss or disdain or circumlocute what is, apparently, the main focus of the film.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Michael Wolff 2010

"I won't circumlocute about how I got in and got set down on a chair alongside of the kitchen stove.

Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent Ellis Parker Butler 1903