A Conversation for Selected Pretentious Literary Terminology
Obfuscation
BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Started conversation Jan 23, 2009
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'Circumlocution
This means being either excessively verbose or evasive, by talking 'round' the subject.'
I remember hearing a phrase on BBC Radio 4: 'To obfuscate by verbiage' 
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