roundabout
ملتو
definition
noun
a close-fitting, waist-length jacket worn by men and boys.
adjective
we need to take a roundabout route to throw off any pursuit
not following a short direct route; circuitous.
translation of 'roundabout'
noun
ممر دائري,
طريق ملتوية
adjective
غير مباشر,
ملتو
example
She shook her head angrily but followed a 'roundabout' route to Raban's shop.
As it was another pleasant, starlit evening, her hair hung loose to dry in the ocean-scented breeze and she took a 'roundabout' route to the amphitheater.
However, privileged access to positive externalities is merely a 'roundabout' way of saying that opportunities are unequal.
This is only a 'roundabout' way of saying that the score for the film sounded like elevator muzak.
Well, that must be why we took the 'roundabout' route tonight.
Anna checked out the window again just to make sure that they weren't taking some really 'roundabout' route to the school.
Anyway, this is just a 'roundabout' way of saying that, while I'm personally delighted to be here, I also appreciate the larger gesture that the invitation represents.
In a 'roundabout' way, I did answer his question with a ‘no.’
They'd never actually done any of the sorts of things suggested in the letter, although she had brought the subject up, in a 'roundabout' way.
That's what I've been trying to get to in my 'roundabout' way.
Letters from relatives on the Continent became a rarity; those that did reach British shores had usually travelled a 'roundabout' route via neutral nations.
I guess I took a 'roundabout' route to it unconsciously.
It's clear that he is locked in his own world now, from his careful - and almost always 'roundabout' - way of answering questions to the faint, humbled tone with which he speaks.
He does not explicate this 'roundabout' reference to circumcision.
She decided not to take the route through the village but to walk the 'roundabout' way along the forest's edge in order to not having to see the horror any more.
It slowly dawned on me that this was what he was trying to determine, in his 'roundabout' way: whether I liked the boy-leader or not.
This is his extremely 'roundabout' way of saying that he wasn't waiting for some kind of rock revival to make his comeback; if anything, he's reacting against it.
That famous voice is never more honeyed than when it's saying - in a courteous, 'roundabout' way - ‘No.’
I had watched from the Citadel as the procession made its way on a 'roundabout' route through the streets of Mainport.
Taking the 'roundabout' route means the train can stop at a dozen additional railway stations in Hubei Province.
I trudged down a 'roundabout' route to the hut, my head down, a desperate desire to cry in my eyes.
Li smiled, acknowledging that his 'roundabout' dialogue had been recognised, unwound and interpreted.
In fact, James's essay on habit may be read as a 'roundabout' critique of late nineteenth-century aestheticism, a movement closely related to a modernism of heightened sensory experience.
She was having such fun, so much that she all but forgot that Terel was following her on her 'roundabout' joyride against the wind.
My chief of staff selected this 'roundabout' route to throw the news media off our trail.
A casual 'roundabout' answer came from the balding man.
It was a 'roundabout' apology but I took what I could.
Where are the two of you taking me in some sort of 'roundabout' way?
Sara made for it in a 'roundabout' way to give them a little time to prepare for her, trying to seem as non-threatening as possible.
This essay will suggests in 'roundabout' ways, that this could be as difficult for ‘them’ as for ‘us’.
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