The explanation was circuitous and puzzling. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Perhaps being circuitous is also a security procedure. From Wordnik.com. [JSC Flyover: Missed Opportunity - NASA Watch] Reference
“Move” also encompasses movement sideways or in circuitous looping motions rather than linear A-B progress. From Wordnik.com. [P is for Push « An A-Z of ELT] Reference
If all of this sounds circuitous, that is because it is; and this is one reason why the recovery process in the housing market is so slow and agonizing. From Wordnik.com. [FXstreet.com] Reference
I understand that The Middleman took a kind of circuitous route to get to ABC Family. From Wordnik.com. [HOLLYWOOD INSIDER: Surprise! The Middleman’s Creator is a Fanboy!] Reference
NETTLETON PAYNE, NEUROLOGIST: But it's available on very limited supply through a very kind of circuitous route. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: FDA Approves 'Abortion Pill' - September 28, 2000] Reference
NETTLETON PAYNE, DORIS LAIRD'S PHYSICIAN: But it's available on a very limited supply through a very kind of circuitous route. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Breaking News: FDA Approves 'Abortion Pill' Use in U.S. - September 28, 2000] Reference
The route at that early date was quite circuitous. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
Any fresh troops for us must come by a circuitous route. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Greene, 54, traveled a circuitous path to the battlefields of Chechnya. From Wordnik.com. [GIVING BACK] Reference
The dog followed a circuitous route to the parking lot, then to Burke's home. From Wordnik.com. [Getting The Wrong Man] Reference
In the brave new world of DNA testing, it would be a circuitous route to take. From Wordnik.com. [In Our Blood] Reference
So here I am, headed west, on a circuitous route that I hope buys me some time. From Wordnik.com. [The Burning Gulf] Reference
The word Lena implies lazy -- a name justified by the circuitous flowing of its stream. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Both Shiites and Sunnis still take long, circuitous routes to work to avoid each other's neighborhoods. From Wordnik.com. [Baghdad Comes Alive] Reference
I can't help but look at my own circuitous and tentative route to Neopagan spiritual practice and marvel. From Wordnik.com. [Wes Isley: A Tribute to Neopagan Visionary Isaac Bonewits (1949-2010)] Reference
I asked why we had not taken it in coming, and he replied that he had thought it "too long and circuitous.". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
His route was necessarily circuitous, and before he could find the desired point, many more minutes had elapsed. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
One of these runs northward by a circuitous and comparatively easy route, through Mohmand territory to the Khyber. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle] Reference
They report all our movements and strength, while we can procure information only by circuitous and unreliable means. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
'Look out what you are about!' he cried, seeing in the wake of the boat the uneven, circuitous route by which they had come. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
Cardoso describes in rich detail the blended life of scholarship and politics that took him on a circuitous route to the top. From Wordnik.com. ['Che Guevara In Tweed'] Reference
General Sherman, however, soon changed his course, so that Hood was obliged to take a circuitous route to the west and north. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
One drawback: the computer is no match for the brain of a savvy cabby, and often gives users unnecessarily circuitous directions. From Wordnik.com. [Byte-Sized Bite Guide] Reference
There has to be a way found that can recover our economy where it doesn't have to go through some circuitous trickle down pathway. From Wordnik.com. [Dennis Santiago: Move Your Money: Bank Regulators Hold Hearings in Los Angeles] Reference
We left Gnome in early autumn and went straight to our old camps. after our usual luck we started in a circuitous route for Gnome. From Wordnik.com. [Black Beaver The Trapper] Reference
Then, returning by a circuitous route, hid in a thicket from which he could have a view of the road leading to the farmer's house. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca] Reference
It's an endless, circuitous, chain of circumstances with little time or effort directed toward understanding the changing consumer. From Wordnik.com. [Ken Markman: The Advent of Brand Culture] Reference
It would, indeed, take them back by a circuitous route, considerably longer than either of those by which they had approached the capital. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
From St. Vallier the road makes very circuitous windings on the steep sides of the mountains, ascending nearly all the way to Escragnolles. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
It appears his company, which he was in charge of at the time, had completed their firing and were returning to camp by a circuitous route. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle] Reference
Concerned that his movements might be traced, Research left his house two hours before flight time and took a circuitous route to the airport. From Wordnik.com. [Web-Exclusive Excerpt: ?A Question Of Intent?] Reference
It was to start on the night of the 27th of May at 12 o'clock, and proceed by a circuitous route through Iuka, Miss., to Booneville, a station on the Mobile and. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
She then took a route somewhat circuitous to avoid further detentions and soon after struck into the road leading to Sumter's camp, where she arrived in safety. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Intelligence officials say the circuitous route the cash took from the Chinese mainland to Sioeng's California bank account was the first clue something might be amiss. From Wordnik.com. [Connecting The Dots] Reference
But to reach the basement from the spiral stairs, where the ransom note was discovered, a perpetrator or a fleeing JonBenet would be forced into a more circuitous route. From Wordnik.com. [A Death In Paradise] Reference
The voyage may be a circuitous one, but there are interesting sights along the way in this revival of John Mortimer's affectionate but not rose-tinted 1970 memoir of his father. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage Round My Father] Reference
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