circumlocutious

circumlocutious (comparative more circumlocutious, superlative most circumlocutious)

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

     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.

• circumlocuitous