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• s  of superficial relevance if any
  a digressive allusion to the day of the week
• s  (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects
  amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things

• This, however, was typically digressive banter from Clerici, 72, and Tommasi, 68.
• Early seasons of Lost tended to get slack and digressive in the middle.
• Except for a few digressive scenes a solo sortie of personal vengeance, a conversation about what it all means that could easily be cut from the 2 hr.

• tangential
• discursive
• excursive
• rambling

News & Articles

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• The 6th Floor Blog: “After ‘Before Midnight’”: A Short Screenplay
  Inspired by the long, digressive yet oddly profound conversations in the trilogy.        
  June 28, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Hortense Calisher in International Herald Tribune
  I do know that in the novel, I feel free to digress,Calisher told the Associated Press in 1998. "We had an old edition of Victor Hugo and you have no idea if you haven't read him recently how digressive Hugo is. He just feels he can...