as in rambling
passing from one topic to another
a digressive lecture on current events around the world
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And indeed, Cornejo Villavicencio’s fluid, digressive prose shines brightest when Catalina’s theatrical self-presentation takes center stage.
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Nicolás Medina Mora, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
Wong, 52, is blunt but happily digressive, playful but quite serious.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
The animated brothers are rarely without weed for long, and their surreal adventures through gentrifying Brooklyn are filled with digressive side quests that maintain a stoner’s perfectly loopy internal logic.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2024
The conversations—with Moyra Davey, Jacqueline Rose, and Simone White, among others—are as varied as the respective ties between the interlocutors, who are in some cases meeting over video and in others exchanging long, digressive dialogue via e-mail.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2024
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Nicolás Medina Mora, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2024
Wong, 52, is blunt but happily digressive, playful but quite serious.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
The animated brothers are rarely without weed for long, and their surreal adventures through gentrifying Brooklyn are filled with digressive side quests that maintain a stoner’s perfectly loopy internal logic.
—Vulture Editors, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2024
The conversations—with Moyra Davey, Jacqueline Rose, and Simone White, among others—are as varied as the respective ties between the interlocutors, who are in some cases meeting over video and in others exchanging long, digressive dialogue via e-mail.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2024
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“Digressive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digressive. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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