circuitously
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8.1
- adverb
- /sɜrˈkjuːɪtəsli/
:
de manera indirecta
- The guys leave him and keep skiing circuitously to their appointed location, all according to a plan devised by Scout leaders and search-and-rescue officials.
Examples
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He said that he planted his plots seasonally according to what bloomed when, planting circuitously around the house.
Fiction book (1996) -
It does serve to connect five major hubs relatively well, if a bit circuitously.
Blog text (14) -
Circuitously, I then returned to the hotel.
Fiction book (2002) -
We walked circuitously to the backstage area.
Fiction book (1993) -
Each company siphoned off $3 million a year and routed the cash circuitously to the Fund.
Fiction book (1996) -
Instead of detailed commitments, the countries would accept a circuitously worded goal of returning their greenhouse gas emissions to "earlier levels" by the turn of the century.
Academic text (1992) -
Which brings me—rather circuitously—to the conservative polemicist Ann Coulter.
Blog text (20) -
I asked him circuitously if he chose to be gay or if he was just born gay.
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At first, Nathan knew in what general direction they were headed, but the trail wound circuitously and then disappeared altogether in the tall reeds.
Synonyms
To say something without being direct
In a long indirect way that does not get to the point
In a winding way with many turns
Antonyms
How Indirect
Surface Forms
Morphology
circuitously = circuitous (transparent) = circuit + ous + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'circuitous', yielding a predictable adverbial meaning.
Etymology
Circuitously comes from circuit, which is like circle and means 'around' or 'going around'. So, to speak or move circuitously is to go 'around' the main point or the direct path instead of going straight to it.