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digressively
adverb
formaluk /daɪˈɡres.ɪv.li/ us /daɪˈɡres.ɪv.li/
If someone writes or speaks digressively, they move away from the main subject:
Patients are free to speak as digressively as they please.
Academics tend to speak digressively, including footnotes in the main text.
He refuses to use an autocue because he prefers to speak digressively and without a script.
The conclusion is always kept in sight as she talks freely and digressively on various topics.
The wandering narrator finds what he's been digressively seeking: home.
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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