Indirect is valid Scrabble Word

Is indirect a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
13 points in WWF

Definitions for INDIRECT in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

not straightforward
not directly caused by or resulting from something
not done directly; conducted through intermediaries
(of costs) deriving from overhead charges or subsidiary work
(of taxation) levied on goods and services rather than income or profits.
(of a route) not straight; not following the shortest way
(of lighting) from a concealed source and diffusely reflected
denoting a free kick from which a goal may not be scored directly.
avoiding direct mention or exposition of a subject
done or caused by someone or something else

Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.
Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect accusation, attack, answer, or proposal.
Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending to mislead or deceive.
Not resulting directly from an act or cause, but more or less remotely connected with or growing out of it; as, indirect results, damages, or claims.
Not reaching the end aimed at by the most plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof, demonstration, etc.
having intervening factors or persons or influences
not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination
descended from a common ancestor but through different lines
extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
not as a direct effect or consequence

Words related to INDIRECT

Words that contain INDIRECT

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How to use INDIRECT in a sentence

Not once nor twice, but many times in the course of a year, his quiet, indirect work resulted in similar expeditions to his study, and as a rule he knew about when to expect them.
It was thought at Manila that a revenue might be derived by indirect taxation, far exceeding this sum, without being sensibly felt by the inhabitants.
However removed, you are an indirect agent of the earth, a humble go-between of the seasons and the eternal needs of man.
In this indirect manner I think that the external evidence bears out the position assigned to the canonical Gospels.
Our route lay through Bruges and Ghent, but the direct road to Bruges was in a bad condition, and we chose the indirect road through Blankenberghe.
To such persons, these indirect modes of training children in habits of subordination to their will, or rather of yielding to their influence, are specially useful.
Because we believe in the indirect education of the theatre, the baseball field and the moving picture.
It is hardly necessary to add that it is in this indirect way that natural selection improves a race.
I have no space to develop all that I should like to say about the indirect effects of war.
Everything they said or did was said and done with a view to conciliate people who might have direct or indirect influence in the country.

They are not without their value, but this value is general and indirect rather than immediate and specific.
When we come to the girl in her teens we find often in large numbers of classes that the only instruction in prayer is the indirect teaching from the prayer at the desk.
As a matter of course, the influence of the sex was tried, under every indirect and delicate form of approach, to induce Mr.
We are left to guess the measure and the activity of their friendship, from indirect indications.
Indirect interest indeed is often necessary and may be a sign of tact in teaching.
Electing, or the giving an indirect approval of Government, is another thing, and demands wholly different qualities.
One indirect effect that is not unworthy of notice in the new system is its tendency to narrow the openings for the writer by profession.
The characterization is skilfully indirect, through unconscious action and speech.
I speak, of course, of its indirect influence, of the power of its example, and the general tone which it inspires.
But the move was perfectly successful in its real and indirect object.
Nevertheless, even in this case, we must not overlook the indirect effects of habit on the heart, as we shall see when we consider the signs of rage.
As if Providence would cut off the best and most promising, for such indirect and uncertain good as might, or might not be produced in another less worthy! CHAPTER XXIV.
Meanwhile, assure yourself that this work has no reference, direct or indirect, to politics, or religion, or personal satire, and that this precaution is merely literary.
History is naturally reduced to similar indirect methods of recovering what has lapsed.
Now, the savage had this faculty of seeing analogies and doing things in indirect ways.
All taxes now levied by the national government are indirect.
These writers had but a remote and indirect bearing upon the progress of literature in England, and are mentioned rather as contemporary, than as distinct subjects of our study.
Meanwhile, every word she had uttered had been an indirect, but none the less telling blow upon a sore place in his own conscience.
Through all the lower grades of school life, and to a certain extent through the whole course, the methods of instruction used will be largely indirect.
It was almost impossible to trace it back along the chain of indirect elections.

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