Word Meanings - INDIRECTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INDIRECTION)
- Deceit
- Cheat
- imposition
- trick
- fraud
- deception
- double dealing
- delusion
- circumvention
- guile
- bewilderment
- treachery
- sham
- insidiousness
- indirection
- duplicity
- cunning
- artifice
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INDIRECTION)
Related words: (words related to INDIRECTION)
- DOUBLEGANGER
An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley. - ARTIFICER
A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one - DOUBLE
Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally - DOUBLE-SHADE
To double the natural darkness of . Milton. - DOUBLE-LOCK
To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler. - DEALBATION
Act of bleaching; a whitening. - DOUBLE DEALER
One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange. - CUNNINGNESS
Quality of being cunning; craft. - TRICK
The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice - DEALFISH
A long, thin fish of the arctic seas . - TRICKISH
Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n. - DOUBLEHEARTED
Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys. - DOUBLETHREADED
Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads. - CHEATABLE
Capable of being cheated. - UNDECEIVE
To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South. - TRICKERY
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture. - TRICKING
Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott. - DECEITFUL
Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak. - GUIDEBOOK
A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc. - DECEITLESS
Free from deceit. Bp. Hall. - THYROIDEAL
Thyroid. - ENTERDEAL
Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser. - WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion. - IDEALISTIC
Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories. - UNBEGUILE
To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne. - SELF-DELUSION
The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded. - WATER ORDEAL
See 1 - ESCHEATOR
An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill. - DEFRAUD
To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing