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Deceitful action that is not straightforward
Answer for the clue "Deceitful action that is not straightforward ", 11 letters:
indirection
Word definitions for indirection in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A lack of direction; deviousness or aimlessness 2 (context computing English) Use of a variable or object through its address 3 An indirect action or process.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection" deceitful action that is not straightforward; "he could see through the indirections of diplomats"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indirection \In`di*rec"tion\, n. [Cf. F. indirection.] Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. ``By indirections find directions out.'' --Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from indirect + -ion .
Usage examples of indirection.
Because Capers grew up in a household that revered politics, he understood the strategies that involved silence and indirection.
Considering the crooked sword, the Graeaean subterfuge, the rear-view approaches to Medusa and Cetus, the far-darting Hermean sandals, even the trajectory of the discus that killed Acrisius, would it be fair to generalize that dodge and indirection were my conscious tactics, and, if so, were they characterological or by Athenian directive?
Everything was a common experience, binding them despite their indirections, the slanted apparatus of their agreeing.
In attaining this knowledge, I was compelled to resort to indirections by no means congenial to my nature, and which were really humiliating to me.
Towards the end, such is the indirection on display, Miss Didion seems incapable of starting a new subordinate clause without splintering off into a new paragraph.
The bee eludes her every effort, zooming here and there, from the bar to a card table, to the top of a whiskey bottle, the tops of three other bottles all in a row, the lid of the upright piano, often waiting while its adversary comes sneaking up by subtle indirection, then taking off a second before the latest weapon slams down.
The white slave has taken from him, by indirection, what the black slave has taken from him, directly, and without ceremony.