Sentence example with the word 'indirection'

indirection

aberrancy, circuitry, corruptness, departure, divarication, excursus, hanky-panky, periphrasis, slant, tack, variation

Definition n. indirect procedure or action

Last update: June 19, 2015


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Incidentally, the sled went faster, and thus, by cunning indirection, did man increase his mastery over the beasts.   [Please select]

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The other was not dull, nor did he usually travel by indirection.   [Please select]

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Sometimes it is seen in hints and shown by indirection but in other instances it is direct, positive, powerful.   [Please select]

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--indirection in--in--" "In getting them together for a revival, and springing a debt-raising on them.   [Please select]

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I proceed with his education rather by indirection and suggestion than by direct precept.   [Please select]

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Think ye a life given to indirection and worming, to prying and scheming, is one of self-choice.   [Please select]

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That which is not like the planetary system must be construed as mechanical by indirection and subtlety.   [Please select]

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By indirection and impersonal details, as regarded his feelings toward Alice, Beverley in due time made his friends understand that his whole ambition was centered in rescuing her.   [Please select]

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Much may be accomplished by correct teaching of good principles, but human nature is such that people learn even more through indirection than through instruction.   [Please select]

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