digressive
Example Sentences
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Wildly digressive, buzzing with literary allusions and telling its story as a 20th-century Shakespearean tragedy, the book has some of the mad, restless energy of Sellers himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
The book is by turns brilliant, provocative, digressive and dull—abounding in talent but confusingly at odds with itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
However, it appears that the 79-year-old president mixed up the two men when telling one of his digressive stories, this time about Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2025
For fans in the audience, it’s efficient one-stop shopping for what’s happening on today’s Top 40, including SZA’s wonderfully digressive R&B, Benson Boone’s earnest nice-guy balladry, Tate McRae’s neo-Britney dance-pop and Shaboozey’s post-hip-hop country music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2024
But I am growing at once prosy and digressive.
From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice
