Meaning

(rare) So as to circumvent..

Example Sentences

UNDERMI´NINGLY, circumventingly, […]

[…] whilst the ex-State Rights men, who compose the Clay division of the Whig Party, and wish to delude the people into the belief, that they, too, opposed the “mother of abominations,” and slyly, insidiously and circumventingly employed in promoting, consummating, and perpetually fixing her blasting and monopolizing curse upon the trading and agricultural interests of the South.

The Tribune, young Gideon and Saint Lewis ride circumventingly by and cautiously around to the right, while I sagaciously conclude to stick to Howell, as doth the “Y-and-dot.”

Here is another order for protecting the interests of the company:—“If any of the brotherhood have agreed for work, and another brother circumventingly go and offer to take the said work cheaper than the former have agreed for, whether he doth get the said work or not” he shall pay £5.

She stood, for the merest fraction of time, on her toes, before she moved towards him circumventingly.

Naturally, I have not been everywhere and do not know how universal the cult of vulgarity is, but I have noted that authors possess a paucity of felicity in circumventingly ugly language in very popular books.

[…] (6) that circumventingly the report given by the Officer was that the place was not in Mynso proper, whereas the suspension order was enforced throughout the jurisdiction of the Doloi of Mynso that is, throughout the Mynso Doloiship.

And the ignominy that is a basic ingredient in aggression still influences would-be predators in hesitating to make an overt attack on a country they covet. They do it circumventingly, as the Soviets are doing through their Cuban mercenaries in Africa, but they don’t like to bear the accusation of fomenting war.

Word Forms

• more circumventingly
• most circumventingly

When Should You Use Circumventingly?

Use circumventingly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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