- Deviating from - Digressing - Digressing (from point) - Having affairs - In The Sting Mr Charles goes wandering off - In The Sting, Mr Charles goes wandering off - of Stray
- Deviating from the norm - Irregular - Uncharacteristic - Unusual - Deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy;
abnormal; irregular; as, an anomalous proceeding.
- Cunning - Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding;
as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla. - Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous;
deceitful. - Injurious: tortious. - Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from
Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.