Meanings of more roundabout in English

It's a more roundabout route, but one which should work just as well.

The Count and Jean Perliez took a more roundabout and a steeper way.

The soluble part of the body waste goes by a somewhat more roundabout route.

The Spanish press have claimed that the deal could be done in a more roundabout way.

However, precisely because they now had a fast, comfortable car, they chose to take a more roundabout route.

His usual roundabout manner of going to work proved, on this occasion, to be more roundabout than ever.

Moved by I know not what folly, I wrote her a yet more roundabout letter, which, however, was very pressing.

There would have been little sense in trying to follow him or to head him off, even by more roundabout courses.

Meanwhile Commissary Primorin had gone by a more roundabout way in order the more surely to surprise the other Questor, M. Baze.

As it turns out, it was just the start of one of the game's more roundabout journeys to being an international number one.

Across the hall, in the smoke-choked room where Hickock was undergoing his second interrogation, Church and Nye were methodically applying a more roundabout strategy.

The Arctic route is a more roundabout way of reaching Europe than crossing the Mediterranean, but the migrants taking the route think it is safer.