roundabout
ਚੌਕ
definition
noun
a close-fitting, waist-length jacket worn by men and boys.
adjective
we need to take a roundabout route to throw off any pursuit
not following a short direct route; circuitous.
example
Well, that must be why we took the 'roundabout' route tonight.
She decided not to take the route through the village but to walk the 'roundabout' way along the forest's edge in order to not having to see the horror any more.
Li smiled, acknowledging that his 'roundabout' dialogue had been recognised, unwound and interpreted.
I had watched from the Citadel as the procession made its way on a 'roundabout' route through the streets of Mainport.
She entered the lingerie shop, idly browsing and refusing assistance from a saleswoman, taking a 'roundabout' route towards the target.
However, privileged access to positive externalities is merely a 'roundabout' way of saying that opportunities are unequal.
It's clear that he is locked in his own world now, from his careful - and almost always 'roundabout' - way of answering questions to the faint, humbled tone with which he speaks.
In a 'roundabout' way we come back to the problem I had with it.
My chief of staff selected this 'roundabout' route to throw the news media off our trail.
I trudged down a 'roundabout' route to the hut, my head down, a desperate desire to cry in my eyes.
I leave in the direction of the toilets but instead start making the 'roundabout' way to Jeremy's room.
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.
A casual 'roundabout' answer came from the balding man.
As it was another pleasant, starlit evening, her hair hung loose to dry in the ocean-scented breeze and she took a 'roundabout' route to the amphitheater.
Wendy spent the next few minutes explaining what went on over the weekend in 'roundabout' and, shall we say, not totally accurate terms.
That's what I've been trying to get to in my 'roundabout' way.
Anna checked out the window again just to make sure that they weren't taking some really 'roundabout' route to the school.
There was still a small chance they might be discovered - very small since they were taking a very 'roundabout' route - but there was still that chance.
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.
An imaginative translator must explore ways, even if 'roundabout' , to recreate the effect of the original in the language into which it is translated.
Where are the two of you taking me in some sort of 'roundabout' way?
This is only a 'roundabout' way of saying that the score for the film sounded like elevator muzak.
This essay will suggests in 'roundabout' ways, that this could be as difficult for ‘them’ as for ‘us’.
Congestion may also be heavier on some routes into town, particularly on more direct roads, than on other routes, such as 'roundabout' routes through neighborhood and city streets.
Letters from relatives on the Continent became a rarity; those that did reach British shores had usually travelled a 'roundabout' route via neutral nations.
Sara made for it in a 'roundabout' way to give them a little time to prepare for her, trying to seem as non-threatening as possible.
It was a 'roundabout' apology but I took what I could.
He does not explicate this 'roundabout' reference to circumcision.
That famous voice is never more honeyed than when it's saying - in a courteous, 'roundabout' way - ‘No.’
She was having such fun, so much that she all but forgot that Terel was following her on her 'roundabout' joyride against the wind.
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