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Etymology

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circumventive +‎ -ly

Adverb

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circumventively (comparative more circumventively, superlative most circumventively)

  1. (rare) In a circumventive manner.
    • 1957, William Storrs Lee, The Yankees of Connecticut[1]:
      "A consciousness of the rectitude of his life raised him far above the Jesuitical arts of hypocrisy," one of his Congregational friends circumventively explained.