Thesaurus / indirection
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synonyms for indirection
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- fourberie
- hanky-panky
- improbity
- sharp practice
- underhandedness
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True, the landlord could not by any hint or indirection discover from whence his midnight visitor came.
WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKEROf course it was done honestly; nobody suspects the Mayor of Boston of double-dealing, of intrigue, or of any indirection!
THE TRIAL OF THEODORE PARKERTHEODORE PARKER"It is not impossible that I shall want them myself," responded Bean, unconsciously adopting the Tully indirection.
BUNKER BEANHARRY LEON WILSONAll direct approaches failing, at last he tried indirection.
TRUE DETECTIVE STORIESCLEVELAND MOFFETTHe refers to this second wife once by indirection, thus: "The children of Laura are no longer motherless."
LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT, VOL. 13ELBERT HUBBARDLike thumb and index they formed a crescent, a threatening semicircle, reaching forward by indirection.
GREENER THAN YOU THINKWARD MOORECertainly this was true of this particular old salt, and it was necessary to approach him by indirection.
WOVEN WITH THE SHIPCYRUS TOWNSEND BRADYShe liked to say to Gretchen things that were meant for other ears; there was novelty in the indirection.
THE LOG SCHOOL-HOUSE ON THE COLUMBIAHEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTHShe was very shy about telling of her early acquaintance with Whittier, and whatever I could learn was by indirection.
WHITTIER-LANDSAMUEL T. PICKARDAnd if you will permit me—I do not impute indirection, of course—but your remark seems to require a footnote.
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