Circuitous

(adj.) 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' .

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• In this case its affinities to the other fourteen new species will be of a curious and circuitous nature. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• A similar quantity was poured into his glass, and he got it to his lips by similar circuitous ways. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• On these same principles we see how it is that the mutual affinities of the forms within each class are so complex and circuitous. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Any fresh troops for us must come by a circuitous route. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Why adopt a circuitous form of speech? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I took a circuitous path, principally for the sake of going to the top of the mount before mentioned, which commanded a view of the city. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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