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sidelong
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sidelong has 3 senses
- sidelong(s = adj.all) askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty - (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"; "sidelong glances"
- sidelong(s = adj.all) lateral - situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"
- sidelong(s = adj.all) Array - inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way"
Adverbial sidelong has 3 senses
- sidelong(r = adv.all) Array - on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground"
- sidelong(r = adv.all) Array - with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window"
- sidelong(r = adv.all) obliquely, sideways - to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side. [1913 Webster]
- On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong."[See
Sideling ,adv. ]" Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
sidelong, a.
Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance. [1913 Webster]
"The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
sidelong, adj. & adv.
--adj. inclining to one side; oblique (a sidelong glance).
--adv. obliquely (moved sidelong).
--adj. inclining to one side; oblique (a sidelong glance).
--adv. obliquely (moved sidelong).
Etymology
sideling (as SIDE, -LING(2)): see -LONG
THESAURUS
sidelong
aside, askance, askant, aslant, aslope, asquint, at an angle, atilt, away, backhand, backhanded, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, broadside, broadside on, canting, careening, circuitous, circuitously, covert, crabwise, deflectional, deviant, deviately, deviative, devious, deviously, digressive, digressively, divagational, divagationally, divergent, divergently, edgeway, edgeways, edgewise, excursive, excursively, flanking, glancing, glancingly, in juxtaposition, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, indirect, indirectly, laterad, lateral, laterally, leaning, lee, leeward, left-handed, listing, nearby, next-beside, oblique, obliquely, on its side, on one side, on the beam, on the side, out of plumb, out of square, pitched, raking, recumbent, right and left, shelving, shelvy, side, sideling, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, sidling, sinister, sinistral, skirting, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, surreptitious, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, to one side, to the side, weather, windwardROGET THESAURUS
sidelong
Laterality
N laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn, laterality, side, flank, quarter, lee, hand, cheek, jowl, jole, wing, profile, temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip, beam, gable, gable end, broadside, lee side, points of the compass, East, Orient, Levant, West, orientation, lateral, sidelong, collateral, parietal, flanking, skirting, flanked, sideling, many sided, multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral, Eastern, orient, oriental, Levantine, Western, occidental, Hesperian, sideways, sidelong, broadside on, on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside, by the side of, side by side, cheek by jowl, to windward, to leeward, laterally, right and left, on her beam ends, his cheek the may of days outworn.
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