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Meaning roundabout meaning

What does roundabout mean?

roundabout

— adjective (= circuitous) marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct the explanation was circuitous and puzzling a roundabout paragraph hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend — adjective (= devious, circuitous) deviating from a straight course a scenic but devious route a long and circuitous journey by train and boat a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic — noun (= rotary) a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary — noun (= carousel) a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement

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roundabout English » English

indirect circuitous merry-go-round carousel traffic circle rotary devious whirligig circle carrousel winding oblique euphemistic detour circumlocutory circumlocution ambagious wordy wander voluble vicarious verbose vagrant vagabond traffic roundabout traffic rotary tortuous surface summerhouse spiral sinuously sinuous second hand roving roundabout way roundabout traffic rotatory rotary traffic revolving platform redundant prolix plump periphrastic peripheral peregrine outer orbital on the other side mediate mealymouthed

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Simple sentences

Don't say it in a roundabout way.

The purpose of a roundabout is to slow down traffic.

Silicon Roundabout is home to a large number of IT start-ups.

The story goes in a roundabout way.

Tom does everything in such a roundabout way.

Movie subtitles

And so a torturous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up.

Well, it certainly is a roundabout way to do it.

What would you say if we could get you there, but by a roundabout route, a cruise of three or four months through the South Seas?

Excuse me, Colonel. It seems to be that, perhaps out of an excess of caution, my colleagues keep asking you indirect questions to which you can only reply in a roundabout way.

Sounds like very roundabout sarcasm.

We just took a roundabout path.

Well, we've just heard- that Picasso is approaching the Tolworth roundabout on the A3. So come in, Sam Trench at Tolworth.

Well, something certainly is happening here- at Tolworth roundabout, David.

He's cycling down very hard- towards the roundabout. He's about 75, 50 yards away- and I can now see his painting.

As yet absolutely no sign of Pablo Picasso. And so, from Tolworth roundabout Back to the studio.

Well, we have in the studio tonight A man who says things in a very roundabout way.

You're beginning to talk in a roundabout way. Oh, I'm sorry.

He coming to the roundabout.

Duviel, I'm at the roundabout, I'll cut him off at the Champs Elysees.

Look here, would you mind if I just got up and danced. a roundabout.

It's kind of a roundabout way to go at it, but let's try it.

Which brings us, in a rather roundabout way, to you, John Breen.

What if we could get you there, but by a roundabout route, a cruise of three or four months through the South Seas?

Quite a roundabout route. The new airfield extension covers a lot of ground.

In a roundabout way.

It seems to be that, perhaps out of an excess of caution, my colleagues keep asking you indirect questions to which you can only reply in a roundabout way.

Why would such an easy girl waste time going after me in such a roundabout way, when my rashness had left her a direct route?

I've just heard Picasso's approaching the Tolworth roundabout on the A3 so come in, Sam Trench at Tolworth.

Something certainly is happening here at Tolworth roundabout.

He's cycling towards the roundabout, about 75, 50 yards away.

And so, from Tolworth roundabout, back to the studio.

The disgrace is we have to resort to such roundabout methods to get him.

The canal is so roundabout.

West Road. roundabout. lorry pulled up.

Well, we've just heard That picasso is approaching the tolworth roundabout on the a3.

Well, something certainly is happening here At tolworth roundabout, david.

He's cycling down very hard Towards the roundabout.

And so, from tolworth roundabout Back to the studio.

You're so roundabout.

Maestro, what was that roundabout you had up there?

News and current affairs

Finally, even as stalemate continues on Iran's uranium enrichment, continued engagement may offer a roundabout means of arriving at a bargain on the nuclear issue.

In London, for example, the emergence of Silicon Roundabout in the late 2000s caught the British government almost by surprise.

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