Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending or designed to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; outwitting; deluding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
evading orovercoming some protective measure.
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Examples
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The aura is somewhat like a circumventive field, or filter, that shields and encloses the other seven chakras.
Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001
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The aura is somewhat like a circumventive field, or filter, that shields and encloses the other seven chakras.
Meditation as Medicine M.D. Dharma Singh Khalsa 2001
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It was self-serving, circumventive, filled in all probability with lies; but as with all brutal and cruel people, his most innocent admissions and most defensive explanations were often more damning and loathsome in their connotations than the crimes others might accuse him of.
Neon Rain James Lee Burke 1987
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Some time ago I was honored by a call from one of these circumventive
Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs Henry H. Harper
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No man could look upon his plotting forehead, and sunken eyes closely placed, without feeling at once that he was naturally cunning and circumventive.
The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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Find him a little circumventive, but he is absolutely one of my daily reads.
Bloody Elbow Luke Thomas 2010
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The rejection of the proposition that globalisation is an institution of circumventive innovations is only possible if it can be proven, with the aid of the derived impulse responses, that Italian and Finnish price and output dynamics were less responsive to shocks in the Eurodollar rates in the latter of the two sample spaces.
Recently Uploaded Slideshows segun_bewaji 2010
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Claassen replied that Shikongo's answer was "circumventive and diplomatic".
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