Adjective sidelong has 3 senses
- askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong - (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"
Antonym: direct (indirect, via indirect)
- lateral, sidelong - situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson
Antonym: top (indirect, via bottom, side)
Antonym: bottom (indirect, via side, top)
- sidelong - inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker
Antonym: horizontal (indirect, via vertical, inclined)
Antonyms: vertical, perpendicular (indirect, via inclined, horizontal)
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Adverbial sidelong has 3 senses
- sidelong - on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground"
- sidelong - with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- sidelong, sideways, obliquely - to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
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