Unstraightforwardly
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In an unstraightforward manner; not straightforwardly; obliquely, indirectly.
"A great many complaints that workers are not being treated as persons can be traced not to the ways in which they may be straightforwardly or unstraightforwardly used, but to the degree to which contemporary employment practices make a point of treating workers uniformly, and so not as the particular persons that they are."
Example
More examples"A great many complaints that workers are not being treated as persons can be traced not to the ways in which they may be straightforwardly or unstraightforwardly used, but to the degree to which contemporary employment practices make a point of treating workers uniformly, and so not as the particular persons that they are."
Etymology
From unstraightforward + -ly.
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