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athwart

English

  1. 🔊 at right angles to the center line of a ship
  2. 🔊 at an oblique angle
    “the sun shone aslant into his face”

Similar words

obliquely aslant across across the grain adverse to against against the grain against the tide against the wind at cross-purposes at cross-purposes with at daggers at daggers drawn at issue at odds at variance at war with athwartships bendwise beyond bias biased biaswise catercorner