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Meaning of sidelong


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  sidelong
      adv 1: on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground"
      2: with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong
         to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
      3: to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out
         of a wizened face" [syn: {sidelong}, {sideways}, {obliquely}]
      adj 1: (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" [syn: {askance}, {askant}, {asquint}, {squint},
             {squint-eyed}, {squinty}, {sidelong}]
      2: situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches
         of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson [syn:
         {lateral}, {sidelong}]
      3: inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a
         sidelong way" - Bram Stoker


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