circumventingly

comparative more circumventingly · superlative most circumventingly

1. rareSo as to circumvent.

   UNDERMI´NINGLY, circumventingly, […]

   1735, N[athan] Bailey, “UNDERMI´NINGLY”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], 7th edition, London: […] J. J. and P. Knapton, […], →OCLC, column 2

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   […] whilst the ex-State Rights men, who compose the Clay division of the Whig Party, and wish to delude the people into the belief, that they, too, opposed the “mother of abominations,” and slyly, insidiously and circumventingly employed in promoting, consummating, and perpetually fixing her blasting and monopolizing curse upon the trading and agricultural interests of the South.

   1843 July 25, “The Devil turned Puritan—or the Clayites of Georgia declaring a Protective Tariff unconstitutional”, in The Macon Georgia Telegraph, volume XVII, number 43, Macon, Ga., page [2], column 6

   The Tribune, young Gideon and Saint Lewis ride circumventingly by and cautiously around to the right, while I sagaciously conclude to stick to Howell, as doth the “Y-and-dot.”

   1867, Charles Godfrey Leland, “Letter Twelfth”, in The Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, or, Three Thousand Miles in a Railway Car, Philadelphia, Pa.: Ringwalt & Brown, Steam-Power Book and Job Printers, […], page 57

   Here is another order for protecting the interests of the company:—“If any of the brotherhood have agreed for work, and another brother circumventingly go and offer to take the said work cheaper than the former have agreed for, whether he doth get the said work or not” he shall pay £5.

   1878 July 5, “Newcastle Incorporated Companies. The Paviors.”, in Newcastle Courant. […], number 10,619, page 6, column 5

   She stood, for the merest fraction of time, on her toes, before she moved towards him circumventingly.

   1923, Kathleen Coyle, Piccadilly: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Company, page 93

   Naturally, I have not been everywhere and do not know how universal the cult of vulgarity is, but I have noted that authors possess a paucity of felicity in circumventingly ugly language in very popular books.

   1956 January 23, George E[phraim] Sokolsky, “These Days: A Treatise On Decent Language, Em Cees, A Plain-Talking Governor And Privacy”, in Tallahassee Democrat, volume XLII, number 23, Tallahassee, Fla., page 6, column 3