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Meanings of circuitous in English

Deviating from a straight course.

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Examples for "roundabout"
Examples for "roundabout"
1
Which was precisely his point, he supposed, in a long, roundabout way.
Indecent suggestion
2
It seemed a mighty roundabout and dicey way to handle the problem.
Savage
3
MPs laughed as Cameron replied: You could say, in a roundabout way.
The Guardian
4
Sir, - The Leopardstown Road roundabout is an accident waiting to happen.
The Irish Times
5
In a roundabout way I met the fellow who had the papers.
Four Boy Hunters; Or, The Outing of the Gun Club
1
There are no straight roads in the wilderness; all trails are devious.
Montlivet
2
Yet something about her suggested she possessed a deep and devious intelligence.
Provenance
3
It is time for all decent people to resist his devious tune.
The Guardian
4
It is not a moral decision, neither is it a devious plan.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
5
That the sources may have been wrong or playing some devious game.
The Irish Times
Usage of circuitous in English
1
Kelly's remains have made a circuitous journey to their final resting place.
Reuters
2
It seems a circuitous way; but it may prove a way nevertheless.
Past and Present
3
Which isn't surprising, given the circuitous path it took to our screens.
Wired
4
By this circuitous route we always arrive at hope in the end.
Tragic Sense Of Life
5
The light-railway engine pulled the trucks slowly along by winding circuitous routes.
Combed Out
6
This circuitous route equaled at least one and a half football fields.
A big little life
7
To reach the Sibneft wells, you have to travel a circuitous route.
The Guardian
8
Both she and it reached the Rhenish spa by some circuitous route.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
9
An immensely circuitous march lay before it ere Prussia could be re-entered.
Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4
10
So we conducted him to our property by a rather circuitous route.
The House / An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer,...
11
Yesterday, it was his circuitous and confusing dodge about defeating ISIS online.
Wired
12
Gonsalvo obviated this difficulty, however, by a circuitous route across the mountains.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic ...
13
His arrival there, 10 years ago, came via a circuitous route.
The Guardian
14
Talk about a circuitous route to their most unlikely meeting yet.
The Irish Times
15
Few managers have taken such a circuitous route onto European football's greatest stage.
The Irish Times
16
The architects were shrewd in making the approach long and circuitous.
The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts an...
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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