digression
noun
the act of digressing.
digressionary
-
a word derived from
digression.
Example Sentences
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Airborne is both an immensely pleasurable, digressionary account of an Atlantic crossing and an unashamed celebration of the good life in anything but the best of times.
From Time Magazine Archive
Goodnight! is his proof, a rich digressionary story of crime, punishment, betrayal and resurrection.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tynan can be glib, self-serving, tricky and loosely digressionary.
From Time Magazine Archive
All this is, however, purely digressionary, since we are more concerned with the social than the medical aspects of Hydropathy, and so we come back at once to Como.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
If we have suffered ourselves to be led into these remarks, they are not altogether digressionary.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
