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| allegorical; allegoric; allusive; parabolic; periphrastic; parabolical; twilight (twilight language StSlav); circumlocutory; non-literal (zakhira75); narrative ("...some cultures place high value on ... answering a question directly and others giving narrative instead. Андрей Стотысячный); shadowy | |||
| figurative; metaphorical | |||
| roundabout | |||
| oblique (Bullfinch) | |||
| ambagious | |||
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| parabolize; in veiled language (4uzhoj); figuratively; roundaboutly; roundaboutedly; parabolically; allusively; allegorically | |||
| in allegorical manner | |||
| parable | |||
| иносказательный: 36 phrases in 8 subjects |
| American usage, not spelling | 1 |
| Figurative | 1 |
| General | 24 |
| Historical | 1 |
| Idiomatic | 1 |
| Literature | 4 |
| Makarov | 2 |
| Military | 2 |