unstraightforward

comparative more unstraightforward · superlative most unstraightforward

1. Not straightforward; oblique, evasive, equivocal, indirect.

   …blame attaches solely to the Liberal Government then in power, for its tortuous and unstraightforward policy.

   1887, A. C. Yate, England and Russia Face to Face in Asia, William Blackwood and Sons, page 443

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   …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.

   1996 August 23, Will Zachmann, “Re: Will Zachmann drops OS/2 ??”, in alt.org.team-os2 (Usenet)

   The answer I will suggest to both questions is “yes,” although in rather surprising and unstraightforward ways.

   2012, Peter Sayer, Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching, Routledge,, →ISBN, page 2