Dictionary Check: periphrastic

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"periphrastic" is a valid word!

Scrabble 21 points

Words with Friends 23 points

adjective

roundabout and unnecessarily wordy

Example: "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"

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