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单词 indirect expression
释义
indirect expression
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n

WORD FAMILY
indirect expression: indirect expressions
USAGE EXAMPLES
None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face.
Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron, Abraham Lincoln(2010)
Perfectly comprehending his superior's mode of indirect expression the city editor replied: "You think so highly of him as that?"
Adams, Samuel Hopkins, Success—A Novel(2010)
Probably no instinct has so many ways of indirect expression as this mothering impulse of protection.
Jackson, Josephine A., Outwitting Our Nerves—A Primer of P...(2010)
n an indirect way of expressing something
Syn|Hyper
circumlocution
equivocation, evasion
a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth
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