Ambagious
roundabout; circuitous:
ambagious reasoning.
adj.
1650s, from french ambagieux, from latin ambagiosus, from ambages “circuits, circ-mlocutions,” from amb- “about” (see ambi-) + agere “to drive” (see act (n.)).
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