| Pronunciation: | | u'bleeklee
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- [adv] to toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
- [adv] at an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face"
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| | Synonyms: | | aslant, athwart, sidelong, sideways |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ob*lique"ly\, adv.
In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly. ``Truth
obliquely leveled.'' --Bp. Fell.
Declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely
shoots his burning ray. --Pope
His discourse tends obliquely to the detracting from
others. --Addison.
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