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sidelong in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. (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"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances"
    askance  askant  asquint  squint  squint-eyed  squinty  sidelong 
  2. situated at or extending to the side
    "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson
    lateral  sidelong 
  3. inclining or directed to one side
    "moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker
    sidelong 
adverb
  1. to, toward or at one side
    "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
    sidelong  sideways  obliquely  sidelong  sideways  obliquely 
  2. with the side toward someone or something
    "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
    sidelong  sidelong 
  3. on the side
    "the plow lay sidelong on the ground"
    sidelong  sidelong 
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