circuitous

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We took a circuitous route back to our hotel so we could see more of the city.

I've just decided to try and loop back around, although it will require miles of travel away from the inferno and then a very circuitous route back, when...  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

Horses and ponies had been sent round by circuitous paths to meet them at their appointed landing-place.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937

That meant a pace slower and a route more circuitous than he'd imagined.†  (source) David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, 2008

Mrs. Shortley waited until the car was out of sight and then she made her way circuitously to the mulberry tree and stood about ten feet behind the two Negroes, one an old man holding a bucket half full of calf feed and the other a yellowish boy with a short woodchuck-like head pushed into a rounded felt hat.†  (source) Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES, 1955

The children moved closer with elaborate circuitousness, edging inward in long curves.†  (source) John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, 1939

As if climbing the peak alone in winter weren't challenging enough, this time he decided to up the ante even further by beginning his ascent at sea level, which entailed walking 160 hard, circuitous miles from the shore of Cook Inlet just to reach the foot of the mountain.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

He had arrived at the truth circuitously: circuitously it would have to be explained.†  (source) Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing, 1950

"I see you want to," Laila said, irritated by this circuitous, playful accusation.†  (source) Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007

He practised glaring and talking deep, but he circuitously hinted to Vida that when he had tried to look Harry Haydock in the eye, Harry had inquired, "What's the matter with you, Raymie?†  (source) Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, 1920

Rocher led Kohler up a handicapped ramp on a circuitous route into the Apostolic Palace.†  (source) Dan Brown, Angels & Demons, 2000

I turned about, no longer aimless, and went—circuitously in order to avoid the busy ways, towards the back streets north of the Strand; for I remembered, though not very distinctly where, that some theatrical costumiers had shops in that district.†  (source) H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man, 1897

I wasn't used to having to go to such circuitous measures, listening to your words in Jessica's mind...her mind isn't very original, and it was annoying to have to stoop to that.†  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005