indirection

indirection (Deceitfulness), noun concealment of truth, cozenage, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, disingenuity, dissimulation, duplicity, falsehood, falseness, fraud, fraudulency, guile, hypocrisy, improbity, insincerity, lack of candidness, lack of conscience, lack of prooity, mendaciousness, mendacity, obliqueness, obliquity, perfidiousness, perfidy, perversion of truth, pretense, slyness, underhandedness, untrustworthiness, untruthfulness

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indirection (Indirect action), noun aberrance, aberrancy, circuitous action, circuitous route, circuitousness, circumflexion, circumlocution, crookedness, deviation, deviousness, digression, divagation, obliquation, obliqueness, obliquity, periphrasis, roundaboutness, straying, swerve, unstraightforrard action, zigzag

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See also: corruption, deceit, deception, falsification, improbity, pettifoggery