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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy;
- Example: "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen
- Example: "sidelong glances"
[syn: askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong]

2. situated at or extending to the side;
- Example: "the lateral branches of a tree"
- Example: "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson
[syn: lateral, sidelong]

3. inclining or directed to one side;
- Example: "moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker;


ADVERB (3)

1. on the side;
- Example: "the plow lay sidelong on the ground"

2. with the side toward someone or something;
- Example: "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

3. to, toward or at one side;
- Example: "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
[syn: sidelong, sideways, obliquely]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sidelong \Side"long`\, adv. [See Sideling, adv.] 1. Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side. [1913 Webster] 2. On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong. Note: [See Sideling, adv. ] --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sidelong \Side"long`\, a. Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance. [1913 Webster] The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

102 Moby Thesaurus words for "sidelong": aside, askance, askant, aslant, aslope, asquint, at an angle, atilt, away, backhand, backhanded, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, broadside, broadside on, canting, careening, circuitous, circuitously, covert, crabwise, deflectional, deviant, deviately, deviative, devious, deviously, digressive, digressively, divagational, divagationally, divergent, divergently, edgeway, edgeways, edgewise, excursive, excursively, flanking, glancing, glancingly, in juxtaposition, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, indirect, indirectly, laterad, lateral, laterally, leaning, lee, leeward, left-handed, listing, nearby, next-beside, oblique, obliquely, on its side, on one side, on the beam, on the side, out of plumb, out of square, pitched, raking, recumbent, right and left, shelving, shelvy, side, sideling, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, sidling, sinister, sinistral, skirting, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, surreptitious, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, to one side, to the side, weather, windward