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unstraightforward Sep 1st 2012, 19:53 new entry New page ==English== ===Etymology=== {{prefix|un|straightforward}} ===Adjective=== {{en-adj}} # Not [[straightforward]]; [[oblique]], [[evasive]], [[equivocal]], [[indirect]]. #* '''1887''', A. C. Yate, ''England and Russia Face to Face in Asia'', William Blackwood and Sons, page [http://books.google.com/books?id=7HmhbSZHaSIC&ots=1eUjNjixNQ&pg=PA443 443]: #*: …blame attaches solely to the Liberal Government then in power, for its tortuous and '''unstraightforward''' policy. #* '''1996''' August 23, Will Zachmann, "[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.org.team-os2/msg/36c12cd69754e27f Re: Will Zachmann drops OS/2 ??]", in <tt>alt.org.team-os2</tt>, ''Usenet'': #*: …I have been no kinder to IBM concerning IBM's abandonment of OS/2 (which is, in fact, what IBM is doing despite a superficial pretense at "continuing to support and enhance" the product) than I was concerning Microsoft's equally '''unstraightforward''' abandonment of OS/2 the winter of '90/'91. #* '''2012''', Peter Sayer, ''Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching'', Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-89773-0, page 2: #*: The answer I will suggest to both questions is "yes," although in rather surprising and '''unstraightforward''' ways. ====Derived terms==== * [[unstraightforwardly]] * [[unstraightforwardness]]

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