Had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

January 21st, 2010 at 5: 56 pm noseeum says: sorry, circumlocutious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Will Brown Give Back The Federal Money That Subsidized Health Reform In Massachusetts?] Reference

“I wanted to be able to re-ask the questions if she was circumlocutious.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Star is Reborn] Reference

"During my recent interxiew with her, she was her usual circumlocutious self.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tek Money]

But when he talked about assassination plots, he became very orotund and he became, in his words, circumlocutious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Very Best Men—Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA] Reference

Henry Erskine met his acquaintance Jemmy Ba -- four, a barrister, who dealt in hard words and circumlocutious sentences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings] Reference

These characters, both old guard and new, are defining the rules as they go along, and it seems right that the speech of these flailing souls should be so circumlocutious.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

This assurance had so facilitated the flow of her circumlocutious diction that, as I listened, I had a curious sense that she was performing a trick analogous to that of the conjuror who pulls hundreds of yards of white paper out of his mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pelican] Reference

Dilan isn’t that forthright, preferring instead the circumlocutious, “Either I doubt his denial.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Human Rights Watch Update] Reference

Writes columnist Norman Chad, "for Kellogg, the shortest distance between two points is a circumlocutious statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news releases on Louisiana Politics, Business, Sports, Entertainment, Louisiana, USA and World News] Reference

Greenspan's, was unusually circumlocutious here.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference

"interior" and "circumlocutious"; heck, he's got to love "multisyllabic" because, we, it's multisyllabic. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news releases on Louisiana Politics, Business, Sports, Entertainment, Louisiana, USA and World News] Reference