INDIRECT, INDIRECTLY
ADJECTIVES
► LEER ► LERE looking askance; oblique, indirect; sly, underhand → 1629 obs.
► SIDE-HANDED indirect → 1845
► SIDE-WIND indirect, oblique → 1680
► SIDE-WINDED indirect, oblique → 1710
► UNGAIN not near at hand; indirect; roundabout; difficult of access; inconveniently situated; generally used of a direction or road → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
ADVERBS
► BY A SIDE-WIND in an indirect method or manner → 1648
► SIDELY in an indirect manner; indirectly → c1380 obs.
► SIDE-WISE in an indirect manner → 1654
NOUNS
► CIRCUMBENDIBUS a roundabout or indirect way or method; a roundabout, long-winded story; circumlocution → 1681
VERBS
► GO AROUND THE MUSHROOM to do something in an indirect and complicated way → 1968 Amer. dial.
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