circuitously

comparative more circuitously · superlative most circuitously

1. In a circuitous manner; following a circuitous route.

   I encountered a couple of hungry-looking dogs, but both hurried circuitously away from the advances I made them.

   1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Work of Fifteen Days”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book II (The Earth under the Martians), page 244

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   For instance: I raised, as a problem, my difficulty in finishing my book, in writing without a deadline. I raised it at length, circuitously, with emotion.

   1998 August 17, Adam Gopnik, “Man Goes To See a Doctor”, in The New Yorker