obliquelyEnglishOxford American Thesaurusobliquely adverb 1 the morning sun shone obliquely across the tower: diagonally, at an angle, slantwise, sideways, sidelong, aslant, athwart; literary aslope. 2 he referred obliquely to the war as “an unfortunate period”: indirectly, in a roundabout way, circuitously, evasively, not in so many words, not outright. ▷antonyms directly.
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