prolixity, sophistries, obfuscation, journalese, doublespeak, tautologies, politesse, indirectness, pedantry, terseness, sophistic, dissimulation, sophist, wordiness, subjunctive, interrogative, buncombe, ingratiation, grandiloquence, grammarian, mot juste, euphemisms, poesy, dissembling, diphthong, lexis, phraseology, loquacity, casuistry, speciousness, obtuseness, disingenuity, locution, monosyllable, punctiliousness, ironist, flummery, prevaricator, metafiction, pithiness, indirection, subjunctive mood, explications, split infinitive, didacticism, shavian, koans, bafflegab, wishfulness, malapropism, declarative sentence, furtiveness, commonplaces, versification, pompousness, participle, hairsplitting, antonym, etymologies, verbiage, facetiousness, panegyric, verbosity, gerund, delphic, nabokovian, hyperboles, succinctness, inscrutability, jargons, archaisms, inarticulateness, misquotation, solecism, newspeak, imposture, persiflage, jabberwocky, jamesian, elide, ineloquent, impenetrability, rhetorician, taciturnity, slyness, idee fixe, chiasmus, subterfuges, apologia, gobbledegook, logorrhea, antidisestablishmentarianism, bureaucratese, rephrasing, cajolery, peevishness, karl von clausewitz, crudities, opera buffa, abstract noun, obliqueness, semantics, circumlocutions, periphrasis, formality, preliminaries, formalities, preamble, procrastination, apologies, obeisance, caution, diffuseness, finesse, precaution, affectation

equivocation, evasion, verboseness, verbosity

indirect expression, periphrasis