circuitous

circuitous
    adj 1: marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or
           conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling";
           "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that
           her ex-husband was marrying her best friend" [syn:
           {circuitous}, {roundabout}]
    2: deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious
       route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a
       roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic" [syn: {devious},
       {circuitous}, {roundabout}]
    

Circuitous \Cir*cu"i*tous\, a. [LL. circuitosus.]
   Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a
   circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.
   -- {Cir*cu"i*tous*ly}, adv. -- {Cir*cu"i*tous*ness}, n.

   Syn: Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
        [1913 Webster]
    

80 Moby Thesaurus words for "circuitous":
      O-shaped, aberrant, aberrative, ambagious, anfractuous, backhand,
      backhanded, circular, circumlocutional, circumlocutory, collateral,
      convolutional, deflectional, departing, desultory, deviant,
      deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive,
      divagational, divergent, errant, erratic, excursive, flexuose,
      flexuous, helical, indirect, involute, involuted, involutional,
      labyrinthine, left-handed, mazy, meandering, meandrous, oblique,
      orbital, out-of-the-way, periphrastic, planetary, rambling, rivose,
      rivulose, rotary, round, roundabout, roving, ruffled, serpentine,
      shifting, side, sidelong, sinister, sinistral, sinuate, sinuose,
      sinuous, snaky, spiral, stray, swerving, torsional, tortile,
      tortuous, turning, twisting, twisty, undirected, vagrant, veering,
      wandering, whorled, winding, wreathlike, wreathy, zigzag