Sample Sentences for
circuitous
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    We took a circuitous route back to our hotel so we could see more of the city.
    circuitous = indirect (not the straightest or quickest)
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    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)
    circuitous = indirect (longer because it is not straight)
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    Horses and ponies had been sent round by circuitous paths to meet them at their appointed landing-place.  (source)
    circuitous = indirect
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    That meant a pace slower and a route more circuitous than he'd imagined.†  (source)
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    I encountered a couple of hungry-looking dogs, but both hurried circuitously away from the advances I made them.†  (source)
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    The children moved closer with elaborate circuitousness, edging inward in long curves.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    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)
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    I went circuitously to Miss Havisham's by all the back ways, and rang at the bell constrainedly, on account of the stiff long fingers of my gloves.†  (source)
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    The ship's captain—she was Ki, tall and covered in ritual scars—let fall in an oblique, circuitous way that she and all her crew thought I'd taken Seivarden on as a charity case.†  (source)
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    He had arrived at the truth circuitously: circuitously it would have to be explained.†  (source)
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    I am returning to it by a somewhat circuitous route.†  (source)
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    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)
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    The bluntness of his question ruined all hopes of leading up to the matter in any circuitous and sentimental way.†  (source)
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