excursive
Americanadjective
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given to making excursions in speech, thought, etc.; wandering; digressive.
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of the nature of such excursions; rambling; desultory.
excursive conversation.
adjective
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tending to digress
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involving detours; rambling
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Example Sentences
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Charm abounds — again, this is Tom Hanks — but “Masterpiece” is too often a maddeningly excursive endeavor that made me think, more than once, of a Richard Scarry book without the drawings.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2023
But it’s less linear — the excursive record of a lifelong pilgrim over the 40 years since her groundbreaking debut album, “Horses.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2015
Rather, it is a more excursive record of a lifelong pilgrim, illustrated by Smith’s own black-and-white photographs, filled with mementos mori and personal accounts of her travels, her artistic obsessions and inspirations.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2015
Downtown, Montgomery Ward installed a new Customer’s Parlor, where excursive fair visitors could loiter on soft couches while browsing the company’s five-hundred-page catalog.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
I have been thus minute in describing this excursive voyage, that others, whose business may hereafter lead them to this river, may profit by the difficulties we experienced in this critical and dangerous passage.
From Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa by Joseph Corry
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