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Princeton's WordNet

  1. indirectlyadverb

    not in a forthright manner

    "he answered very indirectly"

Wiktionary

  1. indirectlyadverb

    In an indirect manner.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Indirectlyadverb

    Etymology: from indirect.

    Still she suppresses the name Ithaca, which continues his doubts and hopes; and at last she indirectly mentions it. William Broome, Notes on the Odyssey.

    He bids you then resign
    Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held
    From him the true challenger. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

    He that takes any thing from his neighbour, which was justly forfeited, to satisfy his own revenge or avarice, is tied to repentance, but not to restitution: because I took the forfeiture indirectly, I am answerable to God for my unhandsome, unjust, or uncharitable circumstances. Taylor.

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  1. indirectly

    Indirectly means in a way that is not directly caused or achieved; happening or implemented as a secondary result or effect. It also refers to a manner of expressing something in a roundabout, non straightforward way, often to avoid confrontation or to imply something without stating it explicitly.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Indirectlyadverb

    in an direct manner; not in a straight line or course; not in express terms; obliquely; not by direct means; hence, unfairly; wrongly

British National Corpus

  1. Adverbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'indirectly' in Adverbs Frequency: #421

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of indirectly in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of indirectly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of indirectly in a Sentence

  1. Naftali Balanson:

    We encourage the end of all funding, both directly and indirectly, for NGOs that participate in the demonization and delegitimization campaigns, when you have organizations that are receiving money ostensibly for peace, human rights, and democracy but they refuse to work with Israeli partners, they refuse to meet with Israelis, and push for boycotts, those are in direct contradiction and seems to be a complete waste of taxpayer money.

  2. Bjorn Gunnarsson:

    Many projections of foreign interest were over-optimistic, sanctions directly affect energy projects in the Arctic, indirectly transport.

  3. Lindsay Wiley:

    The federal government could do it indirectly pretty easily.

  4. Dan Gainor:

    The hot mic is just one more tool the media use to protect their friends and target their enemies, nBC worked with Donald Trump for 11 years. There were no news stories about Trump's off-color and crude comments. It did everything it could to protect him -- both in news and entertainment. He, and indirectly Billy Bush, became targets because he ran a political campaign wildly opposed by network reporters, producers and anchors … If you are liberal, it won't likely impact you for long. If you are to the right of the media covering the story, it will haunt you forever.

  5. William Yeatman:

    Let’s remember that the need for energy storage systems is strictly a consequence of the intermittency of renewable energy sources like solar and wind, ... These companies benefit from the grants and indirectly from the inefficiencies of an industry that exists by the grace of political favoritism.

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