circuitous

Otis, who tells me he was called “Saladin” on the inside, has taken an almost tragically circuitous route in getting here.

It seems like you took a circuitous route, rather than coming up through some agency.

They were flawed and beautiful men in circuitous search of redemption, and Newman wore the characters effortlessly.

The pathway to a powerful judgeship is more circuitous than to a State House or Congress.

There was nothing new, or even objectionable, in the speech, which took a circuitous historical route to its subject.

But at last, long after nightfall, with baby fast asleep, Scattergood drove into Coldriver by deserted and circuitous roads.

The pass over the mountains is circuitous and steep, but in fair weather persons travel on the road along the shore.

As the train ground its way up the circuitous grades, Houston felt that he was headed finally for the dissolution.

He also believed that he could thus join Grant quite as soon as by the more circuitous route by water.

The ledge could only be reached by a circuitous route three miles away.