00767626-a 'roundabout and unnecessarily wordy';
Definitions
- Japanese
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取り巻いていて必要以上に冗長な
― 率直であるというよりはむしろ回りくどい(または遠まわしな)表現が、好きだった; 使い古された詩の方法における迂言的研究/容赦ない格闘に、一人をまだ残すこと/言葉と意味の−T.S.エリオット
- English
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roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
― 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
Relations
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indirect
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Semantic Field: |
alla |
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(Past: 0.000;
Present: 0.266;
Future: 0.001)
SentiWN:
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MLSentiCon:
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