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unstraightforward

adj

Etymology

From un- + straightforward.

  1. derived from *fura-✻
  2. derived from foreweard
  3. derived from foreward
  4. compounded as straightforward — “straight + forward”
  5. prefixed as unstraightforward — “un + straightforward”

Definitions

  1. Not straightforward

    Not straightforward; oblique, evasive, equivocal, indirect.

    • …blame attaches solely to the Liberal Government then in power, for its tortuous and unstraightforward policy.
    • The answer I will suggest to both questions is “yes,” although in rather surprising and unstraightforward ways.

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