Crossword clues for indirectness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indirectness
Indirectness \In`di*rect"ness\, n.
The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.
Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty.
--W. Montagu.
Wiktionary
indirectness
n. The condition of being indirect
WordNet
indirectness
n. having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal [ant: directness]
Usage examples of "indirectness".
My only -and rather pitiable - concession to the Principle of Indirectness had been to take the slow rather than the express line from one city to another.
Anything was better than this constant indirectness of gaining his father's views through his mother.