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digressive
adjective
formaluk /daɪˈɡres.ɪv/ us /daɪˈɡres.ɪv/
Digressive speech or writing moves away from the main subject:
His interview style is often wildly digressive, and frequently mischievous.
The plot is digressive and rambling.
He can sometimes be maddeningly digressive and repetitive.
His memoir is scattered, made up of fragments, perhaps a little digressive.
He manages to spin out funny and digressive monologues for more than three hours.
Unfortunately, her digressive narrative style is often distracting.
Nothing here is wasted, or pointlessly digressive.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Digressing and being indirect or evasive
bury the ledeidiom
candy coat
candy coating
candy-coated
circumlocution
circumlocutory
get on to/onto something
glancingly
gloss over something
go off on a tangentidiom
hedging
implicit
mealy-mouthed
obscure
parry
prevaricate
stray
tangent
unexpressed
unvoiced
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