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indirection
noun as in dishonesty
Strong matches
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- falsehood
- falsity
- flimflam
- fraud
- fraudulence
- graft
- guile
- hocus-pocus
- infamy
- infidelity
- insidiousness
- mendacity
- perfidiousness
- perfidy
- racket
- rascality
- shadiness
- shiftiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- stealing
- swindle
- treachery
- trickery
- trickiness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
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Example Sentences
True, the landlord could not by any hint or indirection discover from whence his midnight visitor came.
Of course it was done honestly; nobody suspects the Mayor of Boston of double-dealing, of intrigue, or of any indirection!
"It is not impossible that I shall want them myself," responded Bean, unconsciously adopting the Tully indirection.
All direct approaches failing, at last he tried indirection.
He refers to this second wife once by indirection, thus: "The children of Laura are no longer motherless."
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On this page you'll find 64 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to indirection, such as: artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, and corruption.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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