circumlocutious

Adjective

• roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; (`ambagious' is archaic)
  • had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression
    
  • A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.-T.S.Eliot
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  circumlocutory , periphrastic , ambagious