Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an indirect manner; not in a straight line or course; not expressly; not by direct or straightforward means.
- Unfairly; crookedly.
Wiktionary
- adv. In an indirect manner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. not in a forthright manner
Etymologies
- indirect + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But what if English borrowed the Chinese term indirectly, via Korean?”
“I got a six-figure advance, and picked a title indirectly suggested by my legion of accidental collaborators: "Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey-Brain!”
“Attacking any member directly or indirectly is a violation of the House rules and a violation of the rules to attack the President directly.”
“The indirectly is what I think is applicable, I can consider any group that is remotely affiliated with ACORN can be restricted; however, I agree with the possibility that this is why it passed so easy and the NOTACORN lawyers will argue this has nothing to do with their organization.”
Senate votes to strip ACORN of federal funding, 83-7. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“Regardless of one's view about sexual ethics, family values, or same-sex marriage, I believe that encouraging or contributing to violence against LGBT people, either directly or indirectly, is the true sin against nature and creation.”
The Huffington Post: Rev. Patrick S. Cheng, Ph.D.: Faith, Hope and Love: Ending LGBT Teen Suicide
“What I mean by indirectly is intentionally hiring a contractor who -- for the specific purpose of hiring an illegal immigrant ...”
“You may have noticed that there is an enormous amount of information available that comes directly or indirectly from the U.S. military or CIA documents.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
“The elected representatives get their money indirectly from the profits generated by the special interest groups with business interests involving the labor of illegal aliens.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Discourteous to Wear American Flag Images on Cinco de Mayo?
“Slappy, are you saying that Palin indirectly got teabagged by a moose?”
“In an interview with The Wall Street Journal published last week, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said that the idea was "actually relayed to us indirectly from the Chinese government.”
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Adverbia
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Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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