cir·cu·i·tous 
(sər-kyĭ-təs)
(sər-kyĭ-təs)adj.
1. Being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course: took a circuitous route to avoid the accident site.
2. Characterized by indirectness, evasiveness, or complexity, as in action or language: a circuitous method of inquiry; a circuitous argument.
[From Medieval Latin circuitōsus, from Latin circuitus, a going around; see CIRCUIT.]
cir·cui·tous·ly adv.
cir·cui·ty, cir·cui·tous·ness n.