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obliquely
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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
o·blique·ly       [uh-bleek-lee, oh-bleek-; Mil. uh-blahyk-lee, oh-blahyk-] Pronunciation Key
–adverb
in an oblique manner or direction.
[Origin: 1565–75; oblique + -ly]
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o·blique       (ō-blēk', ə-blēk')  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
    1. Having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined.
    2. Mathematics Designating geometric lines or planes that are neither parallel nor perpendicular.
    3. Indirect or evasive: oblique political maneuvers.
    4. Devious, misleading, or dishonest: gave oblique answers to the questions.
  2. Botany Having sides of unequal length or form: an oblique leaf.
  3. Anatomy Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal: oblique muscles or ligaments.
    1. Indirect or evasive: oblique political maneuvers.
    2. Devious, misleading, or dishonest: gave oblique answers to the questions.
  5. Not direct in descent; collateral.
  6. Grammar Designating any noun case except the nominative or the vocative.

n.  
  1. An oblique thing, such as a line, direction, or muscle.
  2. Nautical The act of changing course by less than 90°.

adv.   (ō-blīk', ə-blīk')
At an angle of 45°.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin oblīquus.]

o·blique'ly adv., o·blique'ness n.
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obliquely

adverb
1. to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face" [syn: sidelong] 
2. at an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face" 

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Obliquely

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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