meander
verb (used without object)
to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course.
meanderingly
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a word derived from
meander.
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a word derived from
meandering.
meanderingadjectivetaking a winding or indirect course.
Example Sentences
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Best extras: Viewers get to hear from Ms. Banks and her co-producing husband Max Handelman as they meanderingly and meticulously dissect this soon to be cult favorite.
From Washington Times ● May 8, 2023
With an influential history to mine, it’s a shame the franchise-spanning documentary “Living With Chucky,” written and directed by Kyra Elise Gardner, feels like hagiographic DVD featurettes meanderingly stitched together.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
At other points, he sounds meanderingly repetitive, or blazingly defiant.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022
The “Easy Rider” trailer is a mess by contemporary movie-marketing standards, a meanderingly edited collection of protracted clips of Hopper, Fonda, and Jack Nicholson walking and talking and exchanging meaningful looks.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 31, 2019
The great secret mail from Matthias Creek, Virginia, to Port Tobacco, struck Surrattsville, and thence headed off to the east to Washington, going meanderingly north.
From The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend
