circuitously

circuitous | American Dictionary

circuitous
adjective
us/sərˈkju·ɪ·t̬əs/
not straight or direct; roundabout:
We took a circuitous route home.

circuitously

adverbus/sərˈkju·ɪ·t̬əs·li/
The train tracks wound circuitously through the canyons.

Examples of circuitous

circuitous
Which is, of course, the oddly circuitous truth.
It is reached by a rather circuitous processional route, incorporating a grand staircase.
It does this by performing a loop of its circuitous trail.
This concern encourages a distinctly circuitous writing style which does little for clarity and leads to both repetition and contradiction.
The more circuitous route involving a two-level adoption and implementation procedure used by international organisations is avoided.
Other crucial passages in the chapter on fantasia include a passage on circuitous modulations; this category forms my main concern in what follows.
The path from the street to the main living space is circuitous: it contains changes in direction that total at least 278.
Circuitous path to front door from street *10.
Circuitous path from front door to living *25.
Their methods are necessarily circuitous because the boundaries are invisible but many.
In particular, it must have followed a circuitous trail.
It is also worth noting that a trail is circuitous if and only if every finite subtrail is.
They indicate the symbolized, circuitous form in which knowledge is manifested.
Because of institutional restrictions, both women earned their doctorates by circuitous routes.
The path to the front door from the street is circuitous: it contains changes in direction that total at least 1808.
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