[æm'beidʒәs]
adj.
迂远的, 迂曲的

[ adj ]
roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
<adj.all>
had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expressionA periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.

Ambagious \Am*ba"gious\, a. [L. ambagiosus.]
Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]