Circuitously

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a circuitous manner, by a roundabout way, indirectly.

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1791. Burke, Thoughts Fr. Affairs, Wks. VII. 44. I do not think … that it is likely to be misled, unless indirectly and circuitously.

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1848. Mill, Pol. Econ., III. xix. (1876), 370. English goods would be paid for circuitously.

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1870. Dickens, Lett., 31 May. Having come here from town circuitously.

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