indirection

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=di=rec=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

indirection, n. [Cf. F. indirection.].

 Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

indirection

aberrancy, aberration, ambages, artfulness, bend, bias, branching off, cheat, chicane, chicanery, circling, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circularity, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumflexion, circumlocution, circummigration, circumnavigation, corner, corruptedness, corruption, corruptness, craft, criminality, crook, crookedness, crosswiseness, cunning, curve, deceit, deceitfulness, declination, deflection, deflexure, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, diagonality, digression, dirt, discursion, dishonesty, dishonor, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, double-dealing, drift, drifting, dupery, duplicity, errantry, evasiveness, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, falseheartedness, falseness, feloniousness, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, furtiveness, guile, gyre, gyring, hairpin, hanky-panky, hypocrisy, improbity, indirectness, insidiousness, meandering, nonconformity, obliqueness, obliquity, orbit, orbiting, pererration, periphrase, periphrasis, rambling, roundaboutness, rounding, shadiness, sheer, shift, shiftiness, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, skew, skewness, slant, slipperiness, sneak attack, sneakiness, spiral, spiraling, squint, straying, surreptitiousness, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, transverseness, treacherousness, trickiness, turn, turning, twist, unconscientiousness, underhandedness, unsavoriness, unscrupulousness, unstraightforwardness, vagary, variation, veer, wandering, warp, wheeling, yaw, zigzag