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obliquely

 : 
Adverb
 : 
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adverbial obliquely has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

obliquelyadv. 
     In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly.  Bp. Fell.  [1913 Webster]
    "Declining from the noon of day,
    The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray.
    "  [1913 Webster]
    "His discourse tends obliquely to the detracting from others."  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

obliquely

Deviation

N deviation, swerving, obliquation, warp, refraction, flection, flexion, sweep, deflection, deflexure, declination, diversion, digression, depart from, aberration, divergence, zigzag, detour, divagation, wandering, vagrancy, evagation, bypaths and crooked ways, byroad, sidling, knight's move at chess, deviating, aberrant, errant, excursive, discursive, devious, desultory, loose, rambling, stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, circuitous, indirect, zigzag, crab-like, astray from, round about, wide of the mark, to the right about, all manner of ways, circuitously, obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.

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