56 entries under indirect topic. ×

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roundabout(adjective, straight, bent, crooked, secondary)
24
devious(adjective, straight, deviation, bent, crooked)
22
tortuous(adjective, obscure, straight, sophisticated, ambiguous)
16
rambling(adjective, obscure, sophisticated, deviation, bent)
15
meandering(adjective, obscure, sophisticated, crooked, ambiguous)
14
circular(adjective, straight, ambiguous, rambling, around)
14
oblique(adjective, straight, bent, ambiguous, around)
12
ambagious(adjective, around, winding, meandering)
9
circumlocutory(adjective, ambiguous, rambling, incidental)
8
collateral(adjective, ambiguous, secondary, rambling, around)
8
periphrastic(adjective, confused, ambiguous, pointless, rambling)
7
labyrinthine(adjective, around, convoluted)
4
complicated(adjective, obscure, sophisticated, ambiguous, rambling)
4
sidelong(adjective, ambiguous, rambling, incidental)
2
ambiguous(adjective, crooked, rambling, turning)
2
implied(adjective, ambiguous, rambling, incidental)
2
side(secondary, ancillary)
1
adjunctive(side, secondary, ancillary)
1
adjuvant(side, secondary, ancillary)
1
ancillary(adjective, ambiguous, secondary, rambling)
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