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  • s  roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; (`ambagious' is archaic)
    A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot

  • He misrepresents, distorts, bisects sentences and employs periphrastic phrases to make his points.

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