indirection

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun indirection has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

indirectionn. [Cf. F. indirection.].
     Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

indirection

aberrancy, aberration, ambages, artfulness, bend, bias, branching off, cheat, chicane, chicanery, circling, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumflexion, circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, corner, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, craft, criminality, crook, crookedness, crosswiseness, cunning, curve, deceit, deceitfulness, declination, deflection, deflexure, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digression, dirt, discursion, dishonesty, dishonor, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, double-dealing, drift, drifting, dupery, duplicity, errantry, evasiveness, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, falseheartedness, falseness, feloniousness, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, furtiveness, guile, gyre, gyring, hairpin, hanky-panky, hypocrisy, improbity, indirectness, insidiousness, meandering, nonconformity, obliqueness, obliquity, orbit, orbiting, pererration, periphrase, periphrasis, rambling, roundaboutness, rounding, shadiness, sheer, shift, shiftiness, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, skewness, slant, slipperiness, sneak attack, sneakiness, spiral, spiraling, squint, straying, surreptitiousness, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, transverseness, treacherousness, trickiness, turn, turning, twist, unconscientiousness, underhandedness, unsavoriness, unscrupulousness, unstraightforwardness, vagary, variation, veer, wandering, warp, wheeling, yaw, zigzag

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