out-of-the-way

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English

Adjective

out-of-the-way (comparative more out-of-the-way, superlative most out-of-the-way)

  1. Remote or secluded.
    I know this out-of-the-way hotel where we could stay.
    • 1834, L E L, chapter I, in Francesca Carrara.  In Three Volumes.">…], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 8:
      It was from no choice of my own that I was brought up in an out-of-the-way pallazzo, with nothing to do but to fall in love.
    • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 35:
      “Even Darjiling is a little out-of-the-way hole.”
    • 2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “No Marston Vale line trains... and no one in charge seems to 'give a damn'”, in RAIL, number 972, page 46:
      Passenger numbers had been rising sharply. But the replacement of the services by buses, which take far longer because of the number of stations in out-of-the-way villages on the route, will ensure they plummet again.