circuitous

After nine hours, the exhausted guardsmen arrived in Sacramento early on the morning of July 4 — having taken a train through a circuitous route to avoid trouble.

The criticism of Harris’ delayed decision, which is expected to come this summer, varies from sharp and direct to oblique and circuitous.

But the book’s circuitous, meandering structure, including a major digression about one of Siegfried’s sisters, tests the reader’s patience.

This could also come, more circuitously, through the application of a planned carbon trade tax in various jurisdictions.

The UN experts map a circuitous route showing how it is transported to close to the Rwandan border.