Did you mean circumlocutions?
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- circuitous
collapse - marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend" related words >
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- ambagious,
- anfractuous,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- circular,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- collateral,
- convolutional,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- errant,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- flexuose,
- flexuous,
- helical,
- indirect,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involutional,
- labyrinthine,
- left-handed,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- periphrastic,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- rivose,
- rivulose,
- rotary,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- ruffled,
- serpentine,
- shifting,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinuate,
- sinuose,
- sinuous,
- snaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- swerving,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortuous,
- turning,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- undirected,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- whorled,
- winding,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- zigzag
- oblique
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- any grammatical case other than the nominative
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base" related words >
- O-shaped,
- across,
- ambagious,
- angle,
- angle off,
- angling,
- askew,
- aslant,
- athwart,
- atilt,
- awry,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- banked,
- banking,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bias,
- cambered,
- canted,
- canting,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- clandestine,
- collateral,
- crook,
- crooked,
- cross,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deflect,
- deflectional,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- devious,
- diagonal,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- divagate,
- divagational,
- diverge,
- divergent,
- diverging,
- evasive,
- excursive,
- false,
- furtive,
- helical,
- implied,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- indirect,
- leaning,
- left-handed,
- meandering,
- oblique angle,
- oblique figure,
- oblique line,
- offhand,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- overthwart,
- periphrastic,
- pitched,
- pitching,
- rhomboid,
- rotary,
- round,
- roundabout,
- scratch comma,
- separatrix,
- sheer,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- skew,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slash,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- slue,
- sly,
- solidus,
- spiral,
- surreptitious,
- sway,
- swerve,
- thwart,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- traverse,
- turn,
- twist,
- underhanded,
- veer,
- virgule
- indirect
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- not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination; "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "you must take an indirect course in sailing"
- extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action; "making indirect but legitimate inquiries"; "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"
- having intervening factors or persons or influences; "reflection from the ceiling provided a soft indirect light"; "indirect evidence"; "an indirect cause"
- not as a direct effect or consequence; "indirect benefits"; "an indirect advantage" related words >
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- accessory,
- accidental,
- additional,
- adscititious,
- adventitious,
- ambagious,
- amoral,
- ancillary,
- artful,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- circumambient,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- collateral,
- collusive,
- coming,
- conscienceless,
- contingent,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- errant,
- erratic,
- evasive,
- eventual,
- excursive,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- final,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- helical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- incidental,
- insidious,
- labyrinthine,
- last,
- left-handed,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- periphrastic,
- planetary,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- rotary,
- rotten,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- scheming,
- secondary,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinuous,
- slippery,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- subordinate,
- subsidiary,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- swerving,
- tortuous,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- two-faced,
- ultimate,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undirected,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- wily,
- winding,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- zigzag
- Byzantine,
- Ferris wheel,
- O-shaped,
- ambages,
- ambagious,
- ambient,
- anfractuous,
- apparent,
- backhanded,
- balled up,
- bypass,
- carousel,
- chubby,
- chute-the-chutes,
- chutes,
- circling,
- circuit,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- circumambages,
- circumambient,
- circumbendibus,
- circumferential,
- circumflex,
- circumfluent,
- circumfluous,
- circumjacent,
- circumlocution,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- collateral,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- convoluted,
- convolutional,
- cortical,
- crabbed,
- daedal,
- detour,
- deviating,
- deviation,
- deviative,
- devious,
- digression,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- disk,
- elaborate,
- embracing,
- embrangled,
- encircling,
- enclosing,
- encompassing,
- enfolding,
- entangled,
- enveloping,
- environing,
- epidermic,
- evasive,
- excursion,
- excursive,
- exomorphic,
- exterior,
- external,
- extrinsic,
- flexuose,
- flexuous,
- flying horses,
- fouled up,
- fringe,
- helical,
- implicated,
- indirect,
- intricate,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involutional,
- involved,
- jaunt,
- junket,
- knotted,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- long,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- merry-go-round,
- messed up,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- multifarious,
- neighboring,
- oblique,
- open,
- orbital,
- out,
- out-of-the-way,
- outer,
- outermost,
- outing,
- outlying,
- outmost,
- outside,
- outstanding,
- outward,
- outward-facing,
- peripheral,
- periphrase,
- periphrasis,
- periphrastic,
- perplexed,
- pleonasm,
- plump,
- podgy,
- public,
- pudgy,
- ramified,
- redundancy,
- rivose,
- rivulose,
- roller,
- roller coaster,
- rolling stone,
- roly-poly,
- rotary,
- rotator,
- rotor,
- round,
- round trip,
- roundabout way,
- ruffled,
- runaround,
- rundle,
- sally,
- screwed up,
- seeming,
- seesaw,
- serpentine,
- sinuate,
- sinuose,
- sinuous,
- snaky,
- snarled,
- spiral,
- subtle,
- suburban,
- superficial,
- surface,
- surrounding,
- swing,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- tautology,
- teeter-totter,
- top,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortuous,
- traffic circle,
- tubby,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- verbality,
- wheel,
- whip,
- whirlabout,
- whirler,
- whirligig,
- whorled,
- winding,
- wrapping,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy
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