What is "roundabout way"

Usage examples of "roundabout way".

Trent met my gaze, and seeing my acceptance of this roundabout way, he eased back in a squeak of leather.

As I made my roundabout way to my listening-post, Gilly joined me.

Oh, theyll not go far out of sight, I knownot yet, not until theyve tried every roundabout way they can find, and been baulked at every attempt by a small knife at a small piglets throat.

My arm still hurt, and my head ached, and I wondered why I'd even considered traveling such a roundabout way to investigate Gerlis and his magical fires.

If she came into my shop, I might really get to like her, and then I'd be waiting for her to come in all the time, and then when she did come in I'd be nervous and stupid, and probably end up asking her out for a drink in some cack-handed roundabout way, and either she wouldn't catch my drift, and I'd feel like an idiot, or she'd turn me down flat, and I'd feel like an idiot.

The man had looked at the address, and had said it was a roundabout way of delivering a letter directed to Cobb's Hole, to post it at Frizinghall—.

Randy couldn't help but ask-in a roundabout way- why the form she had chosen was so ugly.

This was the most roundabout way possible, turning a fifteen-league journey into something far longer.

And there, to their consummate fury, they found that the daring fugitive had waited until they were well committed to the roundabout way, and men he had traveled down the edge of the cliff and taken another and easier course to the ground.

Rowser had taken me to that Moghul tomb to tell me in a roundabout way the same thing I'd just heard from Charles.

He began in a roundabout way: Intelligence without courage was worth no more than courage without intelligence.