Indirectness is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INDIRECTNESS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of being indirect
• The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.
• Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty.
• having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal
ADJECTIVE:
• 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 lighting) from a concealed source and diffusely reflected
• denoting a free kick from which a goal may not be scored directly.
• not directly caused by or resulting from something
• (of a route) not straight; not following the shortest way
• avoiding direct mention or exposition of a subject
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not direct; as; deviating from a direct line or course; roundabout; not going straight to the point; being or involving proof of a proposition or theorem by demonstration that its negation leads to an absurdity or contradiction; not straightforward and open; deceitful; not directly aimed at or achieved; stating what a real or supposed original speaker said with changes in wording that conform the statement grammatically to the sentence in which it is included; not effected by the action of the people or the electorate

Words related to INDIRECTNESS

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Words that contain INDIRECTNESS

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How to use INDIRECTNESS in a sentence

• He questions him about himself, with such directness or indirectness as instinct and experience dictate.
• One is inseparable from the subtlety and difficulty of the thought or the compression and pregnant indirectness of the phrase.
• There is no indirectness in Ornstein, no vagueness.
• He was not willing to be lectured about indirectness.

Similar words containing DIRECTNES without suffix s and without prefix in

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