Obliquely is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OBLIQUELY in dictionary:

VERB:
• In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly.
ADVERB:
• OBLIQUE, slanting
• not in a direct way; indirectly
• in an oblique direction; slantwise
• to, toward or at one side
• at an oblique angle
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• neither perpendicular nor parallel; inclined; having the axis not perpendicular to the base; having no right angle

Words related to OBLIQUELY

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How to use OBLIQUELY in a sentence

• At length she stopped, pressed against the stone in the hollow of a gully, while Lister crept obliquely across a long wet slab.
• The bricks are placed in rows, with their points jutting obliquely outwards, so that the points project about four inches over one another.
• The line crosses the horn fibres obliquely, and is purposely made in that direction in order that its inferior end may be far enough back to avoid the last nail-hole.
• Should the comet strike the earth obliquely, it would glance off, and the consequences would be partial.
• A small hole about an inch and a half in length is pierced obliquely in the rock.
• It has two tubes placed obliquely in respect to its axis, which, when we turn this tap 90 or 180 degrees, are brought opposite one of the three openings in the body of the tap.
• I was carried at times obliquely upwards and obliquely downwards, continually towards the right, which in the other life is towards the south.
• On either side of the table, a pole was set obliquely against the wall.
• If the mass be moving inward and downward, the direction of the rent must be obliquely upward.
• If only the horses had been fresher! Finally Nesis left the bed of the creek, and urged her horse obliquely up the steep side of the coulee on the left.
• As far as he had ascended Wisdom river it kept its course obliquely down towards the Jefferson.
• Had the Sun been shining on her obliquely, the shadows would have certainly thrown the great mountains into strong relief.
• Ansell watched, detached themselves from the cluster about the tennis-ground and struck, obliquely and at a desultory pace, across the lawn toward the terrace.
• Obliquely from between the interstices of the fire-escape platform came a point of moving white light.
• The skeleton is laid out at full length, generally with the head towards the west or north, a spear at one side and a sword and shield obliquely across the middle.
• At Twenty-third street, Broadway crosses the avenue obliquely from northwest to southeast.
• The small mouth descends obliquely and scarcely reaches back to the orbit.
• The cheek is crossed obliquely by a row of three spots.
• At last, two minutes later, it reproached obliquely, and finally fell on a sandy beach, out of the reach of the waves.
• The canoe being under sail, a sudden squall of wind struck her obliquely and turned her considerably.
• The diamonds ceased to sparkle save here and there obliquely.
• Over goes the summit, ridge, pinnacles, and all, standing off obliquely in the opposite air.
• At least, as much as he could see of it, looking obliquely.
• His eyes, too, set obliquely, enable him to command the sea at all points save dead ahead, and it is accordingly from this point that the fishermen approach him.
• That gap was altogether fortunate for me, for the narrow chimney, slanting obliquely upward, must have impeded the nearer pursuers.
• To the topmost corner of the upper story he had fixed a pole which descended obliquely through a hole in the floor.

Similar words containing OBLIQUE without suffix ly

oblique18 obliqued20 obliquer19 obliques19 obliquest20 obliqueness22 obliquenesses24

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