sidelong

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; - Elizabeth Bowen
  • "sidelong glances"
• situated at or extending to the side; ; - Tennyson
  • "shot out sidelong boughs"
• inclining or directed to one side; - Bram Stoker
  • "moved downward in a sidelong way"

Adverb

• on the side
  • "the plow lay sidelong on the ground"
• with the side toward someone or something; - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • "seated sidelong to the window"
• to, toward or at one side
  • "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"

Adj

• Directed to the side; sideways.
• Slanting or sloping; oblique.
• Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward.
• Along the side of something.

Adv

• Towards the side; sideways.
• obliquely

Synonyms

askance, askant, asquint, inside-out, lateral, obliquely, sideways, squint, squint-eyed, squinty

Related Words

sideling, sidle, sidling

Anagrams of sidelong