Unstraightforwardness
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state or quality of being unstraightforward; a lack of straightforwardness; obliqueness, evasiveness. uncountable
"…this feature in the portrait of the Patriarch was only sublimated from the character of the Mosaic people, and intended to typify an overdone intellectual cleverness, often perhaps passing into really reprehensible deception and unstraightforwardness…."
Example
More examples"…this feature in the portrait of the Patriarch was only sublimated from the character of the Mosaic people, and intended to typify an overdone intellectual cleverness, often perhaps passing into really reprehensible deception and unstraightforwardness…."
Etymology
From unstraightforward + -ness.
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