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English Dictionary: obliquely by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
obliquely
adv
  1. to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
    Synonym(s): sidelong, sideways, obliquely
  2. at an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face"
    Synonym(s): obliquely, aslant, athwart
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Obliquely \Ob*lique"ly\, adv.
      In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly. [bd]Truth
      obliquely leveled.[b8] --Bp. Fell.
  
               Declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely
               shoots his burning ray.                           --Pope
  
               His discourse tends obliquely to the detracting from
               others.                                                   --Addison.
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