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Meanings of roundabout in English

Russian
карусель
Portuguese
carrossel
Catalan
carrusel
Wikidata

A large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement.

карусель
Portuguese
rotatória
Catalan
rotonda

A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.

rotatória

Deviating from a straight course.

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Examples for "devious"
Examples for "devious"
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
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
Usage of roundabout in English
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
6
The communications minister, Lord Carter, denied that it was a roundabout process.
The Guardian
7
And he chose a roundabout course, as we did, to avoid marauders.
The nomad
8
Why would we have come so roundabout a way as the ocean?
Blood of Tyrants
9
The spitty snarl of the apparatus filled the air for rods roundabout.
Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
10
The Courtyard is located off a new roundabout on the Clonsilla Road.
The Irish Times
11
Is this a roundabout way of asking me if we slept together?
The burglar who painted like mondrian
12
He was forced to follow a roundabout route to get to Egypt.
The new yorker
13
Dredging meat cubes in flour is another roundabout way of thickening stew.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
14
She had conquered her third roundabout in twenty minutes when Arthur gestured.
A change in altitude
15
It ventures by the roundabout way, and listens to the low voice.
No Thoroughfare
16
No other vehicles were involved and the van landed on the roundabout.
BBC
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Translations for roundabout
Roundabout through the time
Roundabout across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common
United States of America
Less common