Related Clues:

• Inclined, bent
• Wasn't straight up
• Betrayed a bias
• Was duplicitous
• Had a curving path
• Misspoke deliberately
• Like pop-ups
• Going some of the way around currently in the red
• Took a parabolic path
• Wasn't up-front
• Storyteller's admission
• Moved like a pitched softball
• Art song — told porkies
• Specialized in fiction, say
• Jumped a gap, say