circumventively

adv

circumventively

adv

Etymology From circumventive + -ly.

1

Rare In a circumventive manner.

  • "A consciousness of the rectitude of his life raised him far above the Jesuitical arts of hypocrisy," one of his Congregational friends circumventively explained.1957, William Storrs Lee, The Yankees of Connecticut:

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