Word to the Wise: Discursive

"Discursive" (dis-KUR-siv) - from the Latin for "to run in different directions" - means digressive or rambling.

Example (as used by Dan Balz in The Washington Post): "[Bill Clinton] is in general a discursive politician: Start him talking and you cannot get him to stop."

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