indirection

Noun

Meaning

Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

corruption craft fraud deception cheating deceit cunning falsehood trickery criminality dishonesty artifice duplicity guile dissembling

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Antonyms

fidelity loyalty reliability integrity ethics morality

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Hypernyms

process procedure deception deceit dissembling dissimulation

Examples

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Languages, literature, art, music, history: are all self-evident helps - and even mathematics and sciences, by training memory and demanding the analytical approach, are helpful by indirection. Irene Dunne

Bad as euphemism is, however, indirection is worse. Albert Jay Nock

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection. Italo Calvino

Bad as euphemism is, however, indirection is worse. I notice that a writer in a recent magazine gives this advice to budding newspaper men:. Albert Jay Nock

he could see through the indirections of diplomats Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

indirect transmission indirect vision indirected indirective indirectivity indirectly