10 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
adjective marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct
adjective deviating from a straight course
originFirst attested in 1664. From Latin circuitōsus, from circuitus, from circumeō (“to go around”), from circum (“around”) + eō (“to go”). By surface analysis, circuit + -ous.
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