I think we have a winner.

Main Entry: cir?cu?i?tous
               
      Pronunciation: (")s&r-'ky_-&-t&s
                     Function: adjective
                     Etymology: perhaps from Medieval Latin circuitosus, from 
Latin
                     circuitus
                     Date: 1664
                     1 : having a circular or winding course <a circuitous 
route>
                     2 : not being forthright or direct in language or action
                     - cir?cu?i?tous?ly adverb
                     - cir?cu?i?tous?ness noun 


Also, you gotta love this quote:

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no
learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. 
          
       -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Truer words have never been spoken.

Shorty