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▸ adjective: Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
▸ adjective: Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.
▸ adjective: Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.
▸ adjective: (mathematics, logic, of a proof) Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.
▸ adjective: Figuratively
▸ adjective: (archaic) Not straightforward, fair, or honest; corrupt.
▸ noun: (finance) An indirect cost.
▸ noun: An indirect radiator
▸ verb: (programming, transitive) To access by means of indirection; to dereference.
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ambagious,
digressive,
hearsay,
circuitous,
backhanded,
excursive,
discursive,
circumlocutory,
devious,
allusive,
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