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(adverb) to toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face" |
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Synonyms: obliquely, sideways |
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(adverb) with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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(adverb) on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground" |
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(satellite adjective) inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way"_ Bram Stoker |
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(satellite adjective) situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson |
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Synonyms: lateral |
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(satellite adjective) (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" |
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Synonyms: askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty |
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