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Meanings of digressive in inglés

(Of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects.

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Of superficial relevance if any.

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Examples for "tangential"
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Curiously, the issue of policing seems tangential to negotiations at Hillsborough now.
The Irish Times
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This frequently entailed cobbled-together statements and misunderstandings, as well as tangential discussion.
The Guardian
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But her tangential contact with him had left impressions in her mind.
The Long Earth
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The spinning ship would send him on tangential vector, the direction unpredictable.
Genellan: planetfall
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The first and more tangential is the extraordinary, self-perpetuating drive of Kilkenny.
The Irish Times
Usage of digressive in inglés
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But it's also a wildly digressive attempt to comprehend the animals themselves.
The Guardian
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Though he was curious about the creatures' physiology, the digressive report deflated his interest.
The last page
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These examples, deliberately digressive, are certain of their uncertainties, artful in their apparent artlessness.
The Guardian
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But however digressive your mind may be, do not suffer your eyes to digress.
Gala-Days
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In its digressive, batty narrative voice, it resembles a novel cited by the narrator: Tristram Shandy.
The Guardian
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And then she launched into a digressive and rather vague prospectus of its activities and profits.
Stubble
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These are parenthetical and digressive, and, unless your audience is of superior intelligence, will confuse them.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
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But to return from this digressive simile.
The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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And despite its sprawling, digressive structure, its raw and angry belief in truth and justice remains relevant today.
The Guardian
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He is both diffuse and digressive.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 / A Maga...
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The Village Voice described it as a "digressive yet generous meditation on the body's abilities and limits."
Reuters
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It's a cracking, if entirely unsubstantiated theory, the sort of wild digressive tale that Moore tells better than anyone.
The Guardian
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To that extent, I mean, so that meant that I was always, sort of, generically predisposed to be digressive really.
The new yorker
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It is too long, repetitive, indulgently digressive and self-referential (no fewer than 64 references to his own publications).
The Guardian
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In the expression of digressive but earnest notions like these, I could momentarily divert myself from deeper and more painful emotions.
Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story
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A shrewd and ironical wisdom, gentle and light-fingered and redolent of evasive sentiment, is evoked from these digressive and wanton pages.
One Hundred Best Books / With Commentary and an Essay on Books a...
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