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Ambagious

Postby Grogie » Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:04 pm

Roundabout or indirect. ''They took the ambagious route on the way home.''
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Postby Slava » Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:29 pm

Nice word, though all the on-line dictionaries call it archaic. I do like the idea of "ambages," though.

The freedictionary.com calls this plural: Winding ways or indirect proceedings. This made me think of the phrase, "Just don't get lost in the ambages of Congressional procedure."

Most other sites go for the idea of excessively wordy or roundabout, which applies to all politicians and political speech, no?
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Postby Grogie » Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:32 am

Ambages is a great word too Slava. Thanks so much for it.
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