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Deviating from a straight course.
roundabout
devious
indirect
roundabout
devious
1
Which was precisely his point, he supposed, in a long,
roundabout
way.
2
It seemed a mighty
roundabout
and dicey way to handle the problem.
3
MPs laughed as Cameron replied: You could say, in a
roundabout
way.
4
Sir, - The Leopardstown Road
roundabout
is an accident waiting to happen.
5
In a
roundabout
way I met the fellow who had the papers.
1
There are no straight roads in the wilderness; all trails are
devious
.
2
Yet something about her suggested she possessed a deep and
devious
intelligence.
3
It is time for all decent people to resist his
devious
tune.
4
It is not a moral decision, neither is it a
devious
plan.
5
That the sources may have been wrong or playing some
devious
game.
1
Kelly's remains have made a
circuitous
journey to their final resting place.
2
It seems a
circuitous
way; but it may prove a way nevertheless.
3
Which isn't surprising, given the
circuitous
path it took to our screens.
4
By this
circuitous
route we always arrive at hope in the end.
5
The light-railway engine pulled the trucks slowly along by winding
circuitous
routes.
6
This
circuitous
route equaled at least one and a half football fields.
7
To reach the Sibneft wells, you have to travel a
circuitous
route.
8
Both she and it reached the Rhenish spa by some
circuitous
route.
9
An immensely
circuitous
march lay before it ere Prussia could be re-entered.
10
So we conducted him to our property by a rather
circuitous
route.
11
Yesterday, it was his
circuitous
and confusing dodge about defeating ISIS online.
12
Gonsalvo obviated this difficulty, however, by a
circuitous
route across the mountains.
13
His arrival there, 10 years ago, came via a
circuitous
route.
14
Talk about a
circuitous
route to their most unlikely meeting yet.
15
Few managers have taken such a
circuitous
route onto European football's greatest stage.
16
The architects were shrewd in making the approach long and
circuitous
.
circuitous
circuitous route
more circuitous
circuitous path
circuitous way
very circuitous