circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious

roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; (`ambagious' is archaic); "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot

• indirect — extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action