Meaning of unstraightforwardness | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or quality of being unstraightforward; a lack of straightforwardness; obliqueness, evasiveness.

uncountable

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….”

“…a defender of the Catholic priesthood from the charge of unstraightforwardness before such a jury as the British public was at a very heavy disadvantage….”

“…the very unstraightforwardness of the relationship between image and dramatic production greatly enhances the iconography’s value as a source of evidence for theater history. Selection and distortion have a great deal to tell us about the way ancient artists saw or liked to see or, better still, thought their customers liked to see drama….”

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