obliquely

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.

obliquely Oxford Dictionary of English