Dictionary Definition
sidelong 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]
2 situated at or extending to the side; "the
lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson
[syn: lateral]
3 inclining or directed to one side; "moved
downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker 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: sideways, obliquely]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Directed to the side;
sideways.
- He cast me a sidelong glance.
- Slanting or sloping; oblique.
- Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward.
- She made some sidelong remarks about his manhood.
Adverb
- Towards the side; sideways.
- Obliquely.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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