Crossword-Solution: INDIRECT 8 letters, 67 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Indirect a. Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a
direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.
Indirect a. Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest
course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or consequentially; by
remote means; as, an indirect accusation, attack, answer, or proposal.
Indirect a. Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest;
tending to mislead or deceive.
Indirect a. Not resulting directly from an act or cause, but more or
less remotely connected with or growing out of it; as, indirect
results, damages, or claims.
Indirect a. Not reaching the end aimed at by the most plain and
direct method; as, an indirect proof, demonstration, etc.

We have 67 clues for the answer “INDIRECT”

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not leading by a straight line or course to a destination 1 answer
Circuitous, as a route 1 answer
FORTUOUS 1 answer
Not as the crow flies 1 answer
Not up front 1 answer
Roundabout, as a route 1 answer
Type of object 1 answer
Word before lighting or object 1 answer
beating about the bush 1 answer
done or caused by someone or something else 1 answer
Not upfront 2 answers
Glancing 2 answers
ACCLIVOUS 2 answers
Abaxial 3 answers
Circumlocutory 5 answers
Not straightforward. 7 answers
ESSENTIAL (ant.) 9 answers
backhanded 9 answers
A ROUNDABOUT ROAD 10 answers
CIRCUITOUS, WINDING OR TORTUOUS 10 answers
Circuitous path 10 answers
circuitous 14 answers
Serpentine 21 answers
Discursive 24 answers
consequent 24 answers
slantingly 37 answers
bevelled 38 answers
Sidewise 38 answers
sloped 38 answers
sideward 38 answers
sideling 38 answers
mitred 38 answers
indirectly 38 answers
aslope 39 answers
crabwise 39 answers
slantwise 40 answers
roundabout 40 answers
slantways 41 answers
Diagonal 41 answers
skew 42 answers
Transversely 42 answers
Skewed 43 answers
sneaking 43 answers
contrariwise 43 answers
laterally 43 answers
angled 44 answers
athwart 45 answers
Crosswise 45 answers
aslant 45 answers
Sneaky 45 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INDIRECT (5)

YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Though WAITS was less visible than ITS, there was frequent exchange of people and ideas between the two communities, and innovations pioneered at WAITS exerted enormous indirect influence.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention, direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, etc.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1993
And what is the result? What must be the result? The chemical changes take place through both direct and indirect suggestion, and we live and thrive.” Carthoris eyed the food before him.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
For, while the physical outline and substance were darkening away from the beholder’s eye, the bold, hard, and, at the same time, indirect character of the man seemed to be brought out in a kind of spiritual relief.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with INDIRECT (3)

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)
Carl Sagan Cosmos
All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
George Orwell Why I Write
Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract every possible connotation from each of them, every temporary pun, every direct or indirect connection - as if a word could become an object by mere addition of consequences. Others pick up words from the streets, from their bars, from their offices and display them proudly in their poems as if they were shouting, "See what I have collected from the American language.…
Jack Spicer
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 9 times in crossword archives (1979–2019).