indirection

True, the landlord could not by any hint or indirection discover from whence his midnight visitor came.

Of course it was done honestly; nobody suspects the Mayor of Boston of double-dealing, of intrigue, or of any indirection!

"It is not impossible that I shall want them myself," responded Bean, unconsciously adopting the Tully indirection.

All direct approaches failing, at last he tried indirection.

He refers to this second wife once by indirection, thus: "The children of Laura are no longer motherless."