(n.) Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.

aberrancy aberration ambages artfulness bend bias branching off cheat chicane chicanery circling circuition circuitousness circuitry circularity circulation circumambience circumambiency circumambulation circumflexion circumlocution circummigration circumnavigation corner corruptedness corruption corruptness craft criminality crook crookedness crosswiseness cunning curve deceit deceitfulness declination deflection deflexure departure detour deviance deviancy deviation deviousness diagonality digression dirt discursion dishonesty dishonor divagation divarication divergence diversion dogleg double double-dealing drift drifting dupery duplicity errantry evasiveness excursion excursus exorbitation falseheartedness falseness feloniousness fraud fraudulence fraudulency furtiveness guile gyre gyring hairpin hanky-panky hypocrisy improbity indirectness insidiousness meandering nonconformity obliqueness obliquity orbit orbiting pererration periphrase periphrasis rambling roundaboutness rounding shadiness sheer shift shiftiness shifting shifting course shifting path skew skewness slant slipperiness sneak attack sneakiness spiral spiraling squint straying surreptitiousness sweep swerve swerving swinging tack transverseness treacherousness trickiness turn turning twist unconscientiousness underhandedness unsavoriness unscrupulousness unstraightforwardness vagary variation veer wandering warp wheeling yaw zigzag