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Indirect

adjective

Having intervening factors or persons or influences. "Indirect evidence" , "An indirect cause"

Not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination. "You must take an indirect course in sailing"

Descended from a common ancestor but through different lines. Synonym: collateral. "An indirect descendant of the Stuarts"

Extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action. "An indirect insult" , "Doubtless they had some indirect purpose in mind" , "Though his methods are indirect they are not dishonest" , "Known as a shady indirect fellow"

Not as a direct effect or consequence. "An indirect advantage"

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"Indirect" Quotes from Famous Books

... pretty quickly, by feelings of bitter wrath and resentment, which did more to restore his strength than all the tonics in the world. An explanation, too, seemed now afforded to much that had so mystified him of late. What if, rendered desperate by his threats, Miss Bruce had been in some indirect manner the origin of his captivity and illness—Miss Bruce, the woman who of all others owed him the largest debt of gratitude (like most people, Tom argued from his own side of the question); for whom he had ...

— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville

... trying to draw that information out of me ever since you were captured," he said. "You were indirect and clever about it, but I noticed it. I, Charles Langlade, have perceptions, you must understand. If I do live in the woods I can read ...

— The Masters of the Peaks - A Story of the Great North Woods • Joseph A. Altsheler

... "the young man Wappinger." They could have been summed up in the statement that she must know him no more. She was not only never to see him, or write to him, or communicate with him, by direct or indirect means; as far as he could command it, she was not to think of him, or remember his name. His measures grew more drastic in proportion as he gave them utterance, until he himself become aware that they would be difficult ...

— The Inner Shrine • Basil King

... one was nature, the other was society,—the true and the false embodied. Noticing her daughter glowing with happiness, exhaling her soul through the pores of her face, and beautiful with the beauty of a young girl gathering the first roses of an indirect declaration, Flavie had an impulse of jealousy in her heart. She came across to Celeste and said ...

— The Lesser Bourgeoisie • Honore de Balzac

... with whom you are acquainted. Hence, madam, you will be relieved of half your difficult charge—ha—difficult charge.' Mr Dorrit repeated it with his angry eye on Fanny. 'But not, I hope, to the—hum—diminution of any other portion, direct or indirect, of the footing you have at present the kindness ...

— Little Dorrit • Charles Dickens

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