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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" Antonym: direct.

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

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" Antonym: direct.

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

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... to him a good living in Bedfordshire; but the income thereof was of no avail in supplying his wants: he was vain, pompous, in debt, a gambler. Temptation came upon him. To relieve himself he tried by indirect means to obtain the rectory of St George's, Hanover Square, by sending an anonymous letter to Lady Apsley, offering the sum of L3000 if by her means he could be presented to the living; the letter was immediately ...

— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume II (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz

... Enterprise. The Enterprise letters stirred up trouble. They criticized the police of San Francisco so severely that the officials found means of making the writer's life there difficult and comfortless. With Jim Gillis, brother of a printer of whom he was fond, and who had been the indirect cause of his troubles, he went up into Calaveras County, to a cabin on jackass Hill. Jim Gillis, a lovable, picturesque character (the Truthful James of Bret Harte), owned mining claims. Mark Twain decided to spend his ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... having fled. Washington had a sly sense of humor, and on the occasion of his moving into the mansion, remarked to Colonel Aaron Burr, his aide, "I move in here for sentimental reasons—I have a small and indirect claim ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen • Elbert Hubbard

... the direct and indirect results of missions, between conversion-work and the diffusion of better principles, he emphatically assigns the preference to the latter. Not that he undervalued the conversion of the most abject creature that breathed. To the man individually ...

— The Personal Life Of David Livingstone • William Garden Blaikie

... government; but they imply gross dishonesty on the part of large numbers of our public servants, and guilty complicity in it on the part of many more. Under a system of direct taxation, assessments can be more equitably made, and their expenditure will be more carefully watched, than in the case of indirect taxation; while the latter method is more likely to find favor with those who hold or seek public office, as encouraging a larger freedom of expenditure, and supporting a larger number of needless functionaries ...

— A Manual of Moral Philosophy • Andrew Preston Peabody

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