indirect expression

Other forms: indirect expressions

Definitions of indirect expression
  1. noun
    an indirect way of expressing something
    synonyms: circumlocution
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    type of:
    equivocation, evasion
    a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
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