unstraightforwardly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
15
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an unstraightforward manner; not straightforwardly; obliquely, indirectly.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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)."
- "In reality, the exposed surface of an agglomerate is unstraightforwardly related to the number of spherules within it."
Etymology
From unstraightforward + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more unstraightforwardly (comparative)
most unstraightforwardly (superlative)