Obliqueness in a sentence as a noun

But that would support the point I was making, whereas the obliqueness of your reply makes me think you probably meant to criticize it.

Why are you sure you're not telling me to accept it and deal with you?If I prefer directness and you prefer obliqueness, who is correct, and why?

"Can you see how a reasonable person might see your replies as extreme obliqueness and refusal to engage in productive conversation?

If I prefer directness and you prefer obliqueness, who is correct, and why?I've always wondered the same, after all, doesn't it take two people to have an argument or misunderstanding?

Obliqueness definitions

noun

the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle

noun

the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly

See also: deviousness