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indirect object |
indirect request |
indirect tax |
indirect transmission |
indirected |
indirection
| indirectly
| indirectness
| indiretin
| indirubin
| indiscernible
indirection
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun indirection has 2 senses
- indirection(n = noun.act) Array - indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection" is a kind of procedure, process
- indirection(n = noun.act) Array - deceitful action that is not straightforward; "he could see through the indirections of diplomats" is a kind of deceit, deception, dissembling, dissimulation
CIDE DICTIONARY
indirection, n. [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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