roundabout way
Example Sentences
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Starr answers her critics, in a roundabout way, on her album cover - where she pairs a club-ready gold dress with a traditional gele headwrap.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Some opera singers hoped that the actor’s jibes might actually prove beneficial for the form in a roundabout way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
Their opposition to transportation projects and other infrastructure, though supposedly grounded in Jeffersonian principle, was a roundabout way of retarding industrial development and ensuring that slavery did not become an economic anachronism.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2025
The team repeated the experiment with another group and asked people about their conspiracy-theory beliefs in a more roundabout way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
Randolph in his own roundabout way had come over to support ratification, so he needed to counter Masons apprehensions about slavery.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
