detour
roundabout way

But stories did get back to her, in a roundabout way.

It has all come to me in a very roundabout way, you understand.

So we must set about it a more roundabout way.

Why he did it in this roundabout way is not important now.

Maybe justice was done, in a roundabout way, after all.

Using personal influence in a roundabout way was never very easy.

He set off at last, going a very roundabout way indeed.

But in a roundabout way I did get some news as to what happened.

Then I will take you a roundabout way to my place.

"It seems rather a roundabout way to make your point."