Unstraightforwardness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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…."

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"…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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