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  1. A roundabout, verbose way of speaking or
  2. writing when someone tries to appear
  3. impressive or to evade clarity and action.
  4. Charles Dickens in the novel Little Dorrit
  5. invented the Circumlocution Office as a
  6. satirical representation of a typical
  7. government department.
  8.