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US
/sɝkˈjuɪtəs/
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[ UK /sɜːkjˈuːˌɪtəs/ ]
[ UK /sɜːkjˈuːˌɪtəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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deviating from a straight course
a scenic but devious route
a long and circuitous journey by train and boat
a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic -
marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct
the explanation was circuitous and puzzling
a roundabout paragraph
hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend
How To Use circuitous In A Sentence
- a long and circuitous journey by train and boat
- the explanation was circuitous and puzzling
- For a player regularly accused of taking the circuitous route rather too often on the pitch, he is compulsively candid off it. Times, Sunday Times
- So they have to snake their way up circuitous routes, through canyons and valleys. Christianity Today
- I was always amazed by the length and circuitousness of the corridors in the building.
- So they have to snake their way up circuitous routes, through canyons and valleys. Christianity Today
- The figures of these dances mapped a circuitous route back to Ireland - not just an imagined return but an embodied recovery.
- I came to the knowledge of this site and this specific article by a circuitous route.
- Having started out as a ‘proper’ actress, mine was a circuitous route to comedy.
- During its circuitous voyage, Cassini-Huygens clocked up almost two and a quarter billion miles as it looped across space to the outer solar system.
