The taxes are indirectly responsible for the protests.
Synonyms
by implication
in a roundabout way
circumlocutorily
She referred indirectly to the territorial dispute.
Synonyms
in a roundabout way
evasively
not in so many words
circuitously
periphrastically
He'd heard, indirectly, that I was a major opponent of their plan.
Synonyms
second-hand
on the grapevine (informal)