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n. The quality or state of being indirect.

n. Lack of straightforwardness; deviousness: obtained their goal by subtle indirection.

n. A devious act or statement: wouldn't give us a straight answer, only hints and indirections.

n. Lack of direction; aimlessness.

n. A lack of direction; deviousness or aimlessness

n. Use of a variable or object through its address

n. An indirect action or process.

n. Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.

n. Oblique or irregular course or means; unfair or deceitful action or proceeding; indirectness.

n. deceitful action that is not straightforward

n. indirect procedure or action

"This novel is an ambitious experiment in indirection by the author of Breakfast on Pluto."

deception    dissimulation    dissembling    deceit    process    procedure   

indirectness    deviousness    deviation    circuity    circuitousness    obliquity    obliqueness    secondariness    mediacy    circumlocution   

wouldn'tit    cozenage    flummery    pilotage    expl    characterisation    taxidermist    geometrician    knavery    chicanery