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sidelong

English

  1. 🔊 inclining or directed to one side
    “moved downward in a sidelong way”
  2. 🔊 situated at or extending to the side
    “the lateral branches of a tree”
  3. 🔊 (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”
  4. 🔊 to, toward or at one side
    “darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face”
  5. 🔊 with the side toward someone or something
    “seated sidelong to the window”
  6. 🔊 on the side
    “the plow lay sidelong on the ground”

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