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oblique speech

oblique speech noun: speech which is quoted indirectly, or in a different person from that employed by the original speaker.

Noun

oblique speech (uncountable)

  1. (rhetoric) Speech which is quoted indirectly, or in a different person from that employed by the original speaker.

Synonyms of oblique speech

Questions about oblique speech

What does oblique speech mean?
Oblique speech means speech which is quoted indirectly, or in a different person from that employed by the original speaker.
What part of speech is oblique speech?
Oblique speech is a noun.

Words near oblique speech in the dictionary

  1. oblique sailing
  2. oblique shock
  3. oblique shocks
  4. oblique spaceship
  5. oblique spaceships
  6. oblique speech
  7. oblique sphere
  8. oblique spheres
  9. oblique stem
  10. oblique stems
  11. oblique step

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