indirectly

Adverb

Meaning

In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

incidentally consequentially eventually indirect aside sideways laterally marginally circularly covertly secondarily tangentially vicariously sidewise furtively
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Antonyms

directly right due direct plumb actually
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Phrases with the word

attack indirectly

Anagrams

cylindrite

Examples

he answered very indirectly Source: Internet

About 50,000 Dominicans are directly employed in this sector, mostly working in hotels, and another 110,000 are indirectly employed as taxi drivers, tour guides, or tourist-shop staff. Source: Internet

A concept is already a sort of mental shorthand standing for a large number of concretes, allowing a human being to think indirectly or implicitly of many more such concretes than can be held explicitly in mind. Source: Internet

All municipalities in the metropolitan area depend directly or indirectly on Seville's economy, while agriculture dominates the economy of the smaller villages, with some industrial activity localised in industrial parks. Source: Internet

After the end of the project and before the completion of the book Africans Before CARICOM, Wayne Louis worked directly, and the other teachers worked indirectly, with the project conceiver and coordinator in the teaching of the history to VFCSS students. Source: Internet

A fourth, a high-speed version of Al Dubin and Joe Burke 's "Dancing With Tears in My Eyes", was, years later, indirectly attributed to Cervenka's mournful state of mind. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

indirection indirective indirectivity indirectness indiretin indirigibility