digressionary

as in rambling
passing from one topic to another the professor's digressionary style is appealing to some students and completely off-putting to others

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Adjective
  • Refine your key points to be clear and concise—no rambling monologues.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • In the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her 6-year-old daughter JonBenét missing, and found a rambling ransom note left inside their Boulder, Colorado, home.
    Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The film is narrated in the languages of the cultures the characters move through, as Burmese gives way to Thai, to Vietnamese, and beyond — a wandering, collective dream.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The wandering pack needs more females for their new society and there are two females and two males inside the small cage.
    Chip Bell, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Cook over indirect heat: Make sure there are no flames directly beneath the food.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 15 May 2025
  • Little has come of new indirect ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas led by Trump’s envoys and Qatar and Egyptian mediators in Doha.
    Reuters, NBC news, 15 May 2025
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“Digressionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digressionary. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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