circumlocutious

comparative more circumlocutious · superlative most circumlocutious

1. circumlocutional

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   I do not shy from the essentially materialistic, often hypocritical aspects of the executive-headhunting profession, but I want to make clear that as much as we corporate consultants initiate circumlocutious arcanities and the simulacra of expertise rather than its substance, we are forced into so doing by a business ethic that often can swallow nothing less familiar: the truth, for instance.

   1973, Allan J. Cox, Confessions of a Corporate Headhunter, New York, N.Y.: Trident Press, →ISBN, pages 25–26