'Sidelong' definitions:
Definition of 'sidelong'
(from WordNet)
adverb
On the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground"
adverb
With the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
adverb
To, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face" [syn: sidelong, sideways, obliquely]
adjective
(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]
adjective
Situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson [syn: lateral, sidelong]
adjective
Inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker
Definition of 'Sidelong'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Sidelong'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'sidelong'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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