Definitions for indirection

indirection in·di·rec·tion

Spelling: [in-duh-rek-shuh n, -dahy-]
IPA: /ˌɪn dəˈrɛk ʃən, -daɪ-/

Indirection is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 524 anagrams from letters in indirection (cdeiiinnort).

Definitions for indirection

noun

  1. indirect action or procedure.
  2. a roundabout course or method.
  3. a lack of direction or goal; aimlessness:
  4. deceitful or dishonest dealing.

Origin of indirection

1585-95; indirect + -ion, modeled on direction

Examples for indirection

He was ever for evasion, indirection; she for frank, open dealing in all things.

Colonel Dexter Baldwin had his faults, like other men, but they were not those of indirection.

I could be robbed by indirection, but this was too open and barefaced to be endured.

Besides she could not wait to ask her questions by any indirection.

Human beings, all human beings, he had found, moved only by indirection.

The other was not dull, nor did he usually travel by indirection.

There was not a fibre of guile or indirection in his moral nature.

It is possible, however, that it may teach a valuable lesson by indirection.

indirection fences badly with open-eyed sincerity, and he did not finish.

Madame Guyon lays bare her heart, but she does it by indirection.

Word Value for indirection
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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