unstraightforwardness
unstraightforwardness noun: the state or quality of being unstraightforward; a lack of straightforwardness; obliqueness, evasiveness.
Noun
unstraightforwardness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being unstraightforward; a lack of straightforwardness; obliqueness, evasiveness.
- …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….1867, Russell Martineau (ed.), The History of Israel, Longmans, Green, and Co., translation of Heinrich Ewald, Geschichte des Volkes Israel (1859), page 346
- …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….1921, Wilfrid Ward, The Life of John Henry Cardinal Newman, volume II, Longmans, Green and Co., page 14
Origin of unstraightforwardness
From unstraightforward + -ness.
Questions about unstraightforwardness
- What does unstraightforwardness mean?
- Unstraightforwardness means the state or quality of being unstraightforward; a lack of straightforwardness; obliqueness, evasiveness.
- What part of speech is unstraightforwardness?
- Unstraightforwardness is a noun.
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