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sidelong   (TTS Sound)

The adj sidelong has 3 senses

• askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty, sidelong -- ((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")


• lateral, sidelong -- (situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson)


• sidelong -- (inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker)

The adv sidelong has 3 senses

• sidelong -- (on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground")


• sidelong -- (with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne)


• sidelong, sideways, obliquely -- (to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face")