circuitously
advUS /sɝːˈkjuː.ə.t̬əs.li/
Etymology From circuitous + -ly.
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:
- 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: