NOUN
- a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
How To Use roundabout way In A Sentence
- That famous voice is never more honeyed than when it's saying - in a courteous, roundabout way - ‘No.’
- Austen is pervading my life in roundabout ways, and while it’s nice to watch a movie without the work part of my brain peering at the cars to see what sort of dash kits might be installed, I feel like I’d be much better served by reading her actual work. Becoming Jane with Anne Hathaway
- This essay will suggests in roundabout ways, that this could be as difficult for ‘them’ as for ‘us’.
- Such of us as associate their earliest recollections of the name with the annual cask of wine will read with interest that though the wine, thanks to the oidium or some malady of that sort, is a thing of the past, the spot retains many other charms ample to justify a trip to its shores by a more roundabout way than the slow and direct or costly and circuitous routes laid down by Mr. Benjamin. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
- There was no need for the data to be obtained in such a roundabout way when there was a well-established legal remedy already available. grumbler on Sep 29th, 2009 at 3: 11 pm: Who is pulling the strings? | Serendipity
- 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.
- In a roundabout way we come back to the problem I had with it.
- 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.
- He actually came up with the name in a roundabout way. The Sun
- hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend
