Definitions for: Obliquely


[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"



Webster (1913) 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.

Synonyms: aslant, athwart, sidelong, sideways

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