A digressive allusion to the day of the week.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

"" Forgive me while I go into digressive madness, '' he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Of The Canon] Reference

He pushes the edge, with his digressive and voluminous style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Kids Can Write Books Better Than You] Reference

Their speech is vague and digressive; their dress is eccentric.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Everybody Crazy?] Reference

In the right hands, the meditative, digressive style can work well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartbreak by Craig Raine] Reference

Guest knows how way leads on to way — how digressive life itself can be.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times: Poetry Chronicle] Reference

His speech is so wonderfully digressive and complicated that it reeks of Homer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilium]

"Cohen mines a wealth of family history in this funny, angry, digressive memoir.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweet and Low by Rich Cohen: Book summary] Reference

You just have to be incredibly patient with my digressive yammering to get to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toast:] Reference

It was almost twice as long and had a lot of what I think of as digressive material.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writing Obsession] Reference

In a word, my work is digressive, and it is progressive too, — and at the same time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference

Topics like the self-testing of blood-sugar levels by diabetics, for instance, seem digressive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Help, I Need Somebody] Reference

The work is episodical and digressive, but in a more extensive way than Shandy; the episodes in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

Even before the fatwa, he was easily distracted, compulsively digressive, and always in a hurry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Almost Shaped] Reference

That sort of allusive, digressive style is extremely hard to do without becoming fey or annoying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why your favorite author's like pesto] Reference

It can disorient at times, but the associative or digressive approach is the right one for the task.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Ever Happened to Moderism? by Gabriel Josipovici] Reference

But we do have some digressive ones in which Ophelia and the panda go to the moon, for example.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Crocodile] Reference

Better that, quoth I, than dissipating the mind on such digressive and misleading quibbles as he raised.    From Wordnik.com.  [A different flesh]

Each time, Armitage passed on the information as digressive chitchat to a prominent Washington reporter.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Fiderer: How Is Richard Armitage's Story Dishonest? Let's Count the Many Ways] Reference

The investigation seemed absurdly digressive, considering the many vital projects currently on his calendar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garden of Beasts]

It certainly is what my mother used to call a shaggy-dog story, digressive to a sometimes irritating degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Nouveau Riche] Reference

It's a long digressive tale that begins with the birth of the title character -- and pretty much ends there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tristram Shandy] Reference

ELM: Peter, I very much liked "The Lost" too, though its narrative style was a touch to digressive for my taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is That Legal?: "And How Was The Weather In Łodź?"] Reference

I'm thinking out loud, and my thought processes are over-focused, repetitive, and digressive (if that's a word).    From Wordnik.com.  [Catch all, Part 1] Reference

These are parenthetical and digressive, and, unless your audience is of superior intelligence, will confuse them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference

Descriptions of materials are often incomplete, sketchy in comparison to the rest of the contents, and digressive. 7.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

Dante labels his Commedia “digressive,” while typically the medieval commentator ringed his text with marginalia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The discussion is digressive and overly credulous of literary and semi-historical sources, while scanting archeology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Return to the Hyatt] Reference