meandering

meandering
adj
1. circuitous, indirect, devious; anfractuous, winding, turning, sinuous, serpentine, snaky, tortuous, vermicular, vermiculate; roundabout, ambagious, flexuous, curvy, curved, wavy, undulating; spiraling, circling, convoluted, volute, coiled; twisted, tortile, crooked, bent; mazy, labyrinthine.
2. excursive, circumlocutory, periphrastic, digressive, desultory, deviating, rambling, meandrous; diffuse, prolix, protracted, episodic, rhapsodic.

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