What's an antonym for the slang "straight up"?
He was straight up roasted by the President during the meeting.
I mean to say "indirectly" or something along the same line.
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Sign up to join this communityYou might use ‘covertly’ or ‘implicitly’. ‘Indirectly’ would work well too.
For some slang terms in keeping with ‘straight up’, you might hear ‘kind of’ or ‘sort of’, which kind of imply that whether or not he was actually roasted might be up for debate.