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indirectness

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Example Sentences

Miriam benignly gazed—it was the perfection of indirectness.

Peter talked to conceal his feelings, and, like many a man practising that indirectness, rather lost himself in the wood.

The indirectness of speech had been a shelter to her, permitting her to hint at more than she dared clothe in words.

It was the first time that he had confronted the fact of the indirectness of a woman's movement towards her desire.

The explanation, with the usual indirectness of a Griswold, was sugared with a compliment.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to indirectness, such as: diffuseness, discursiveness, euphemism, periphrasis, pleonasm, and prolixity.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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