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▸ adjective: Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
▸ adjective: Disingenuous; underhand; morally corrupt.
▸ adjective: Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
▸ adjective: (botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
▸ adjective: (botany, of branches or roots) Growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
▸ adjective: (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
▸ adjective: (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
▸ adjective: (music) Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
▸ noun: (geometry) An oblique line.
▸ noun: (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
▸ noun: (grammar) The oblique case.
▸ noun: (exercise) The musculus obliquus externus abdominis or also obliquus internus abdominis.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To deviate from a perpendicular line; to become askew;
▸ verb: (military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
▸ verb: (transitive, computing) To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
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sideways,
bias,
collateral,
indirect,
oblique case,
devious,
diagonal,
crabwise,
catercorner,
catty-corner,
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