"unstraightforwardly" meaning in English

See unstraightforwardly in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

Forms: more unstraightforwardly [comparative], most unstraightforwardly [superlative]
Etymology: unstraightforward + -ly Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|unstraightforward|ly}} unstraightforward + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} unstraightforwardly (comparative more unstraightforwardly, superlative most unstraightforwardly)
  1. In an unstraightforward manner; not straightforwardly; obliquely, indirectly.
    Sense id: en-unstraightforwardly-en-adv-v3lVOXDs Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ly

Download JSON data for unstraightforwardly meaning in English (2.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "unstraightforward",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "unstraightforward + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "unstraightforward + -ly",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more unstraightforwardly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most unstraightforwardly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unstraightforwardly (comparative more unstraightforwardly, superlative most unstraightforwardly)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ly",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Onora O'Neill, Constructions of Reason, Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, page 124",
          "text": "A great many complaints that workers are not being treated as persons can be traced not to the ways in which they may be straightforwardly or unstraightforwardly used, but to the degree to which contemporary employment practices make a point of treating workers uniformly, and so not as the particular persons that they are.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 February 21, Stewart/sna, “Re: I was a hero yesterday, Rockford style”, in alt.recovery.codependency (Usenet)",
          "text": "In this response, it seems to me that you again express the same desire (albeit less straightforwardly), while at the same time denying that desire (again somewhat unstraightforwardly).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Peter Eastwood, Particulate Emissions from Vehicles, Wiley, page 81",
          "text": "In reality, the exposed surface of an agglomerate is unstraightforwardly related to the number of spherules within it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In an unstraightforward manner; not straightforwardly; obliquely, indirectly."
      ],
      "id": "en-unstraightforwardly-en-adv-v3lVOXDs",
      "links": [
        [
          "unstraightforward",
          "unstraightforward"
        ],
        [
          "straightforwardly",
          "straightforwardly"
        ],
        [
          "obliquely",
          "obliquely"
        ],
        [
          "indirectly",
          "indirectly"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "unstraightforwardly"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "unstraightforward",
        "3": "ly"
      },
      "expansion": "unstraightforward + -ly",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "unstraightforward + -ly",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more unstraightforwardly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most unstraightforwardly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unstraightforwardly (comparative more unstraightforwardly, superlative most unstraightforwardly)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -ly",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, Onora O'Neill, Constructions of Reason, Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, page 124",
          "text": "A great many complaints that workers are not being treated as persons can be traced not to the ways in which they may be straightforwardly or unstraightforwardly used, but to the degree to which contemporary employment practices make a point of treating workers uniformly, and so not as the particular persons that they are.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002 February 21, Stewart/sna, “Re: I was a hero yesterday, Rockford style”, in alt.recovery.codependency (Usenet)",
          "text": "In this response, it seems to me that you again express the same desire (albeit less straightforwardly), while at the same time denying that desire (again somewhat unstraightforwardly).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Peter Eastwood, Particulate Emissions from Vehicles, Wiley, page 81",
          "text": "In reality, the exposed surface of an agglomerate is unstraightforwardly related to the number of spherules within it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In an unstraightforward manner; not straightforwardly; obliquely, indirectly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unstraightforward",
          "unstraightforward"
        ],
        [
          "straightforwardly",
          "straightforwardly"
        ],
        [
          "obliquely",
          "obliquely"
        ],
        [
          "indirectly",
          "indirectly"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "unstraightforwardly"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-06 using wiktextract (6c02f21 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.