roundabout
ವೃತ್ತದಲ್ಲಿ
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.
example
It was a 'roundabout' apology but I took what I could.
I guess I took a 'roundabout' route to it unconsciously.
Well, that must be why we took the 'roundabout' route tonight.
I leave in the direction of the toilets but instead start making the 'roundabout' way to Jeremy's room.
Wendy spent the next few minutes explaining what went on over the weekend in 'roundabout' and, shall we say, not totally accurate terms.
In a 'roundabout' way, I did answer his question with a ‘no.’
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.
I had watched from the Citadel as the procession made its way on a 'roundabout' route through the streets of Mainport.
She was having such fun, so much that she all but forgot that Terel was following her on her 'roundabout' joyride against the wind.
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.
Li smiled, acknowledging that his 'roundabout' dialogue had been recognised, unwound and interpreted.
My chief of staff selected this 'roundabout' route to throw the news media off our trail.
She entered the lingerie shop, idly browsing and refusing assistance from a saleswoman, taking a 'roundabout' route towards the target.
Letters from relatives on the Continent became a rarity; those that did reach British shores had usually travelled a 'roundabout' route via neutral nations.
This is only a 'roundabout' way of saying that the score for the film sounded like elevator muzak.
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.
There was still a small chance they might be discovered - very small since they were taking a very 'roundabout' route - but there was still that chance.
An imaginative translator must explore ways, even if 'roundabout' , to recreate the effect of the original in the language into which it is translated.
A casual 'roundabout' answer came from the balding man.
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.’
He does not explicate this 'roundabout' reference to circumcision.
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.
Anna checked out the window again just to make sure that they weren't taking some really 'roundabout' route to the school.
Rather than just saying this directly, Thai people tend to go the 'roundabout' route.
Congestion may also be heavier on some routes into town, particularly on more direct roads, than on other routes, such as 'roundabout' routes through neighborhood and city streets.
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.
This essay will suggests in 'roundabout' ways, that this could be as difficult for ‘them’ as for ‘us’.
She shook her head angrily but followed a 'roundabout' route to Raban's shop.
That's what I've been trying to get to in my 'roundabout' way.
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