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Indirect (glance)
Answer for the clue "Indirect (glance) ", 8 letters:
sidelong
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Word definitions for sidelong in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"towartd the side," 1570s, alteration of Middle English sidlyng (see sidle ), probably by influence of side (n.) + long (adj.). As an adjective from 1590s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sidelong \Side"long`\, a. Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance. The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love. --Goldsmith.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (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 ] situated ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a sidelong/sideways glance (= a way of looking by moving your eyes to the side ) ▪ Christina gave her husband a sidelong glance. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN glance ▪ I cast a sidelong glance , to see if she's ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Directed to the side; sideways. 2 slanting or sloping; oblique. 3 indirect; suggestive; not straightforward. adv. 1 Towards the side; sideways. 2 obliquely
Usage examples of sidelong.
The others stirred and looked at one another sidelong, for they had been afraid and knew that he had been too.
Haplo a sidelong glance, then swiftly averted her gaze and started to pick up his wet trousers.
Occasionally they darted sidelong glances at the Baptist, shaking and nodding their heads as they spoke, but striving to maintain their poise.
The astonished bureaucrat hazarded a sidelong glance at the shabbily-dressed general, obviously regretting the slights he had given him earlier that day.
Unless he was making the same mistake as the back-slapping chap had done, he was looking sidelong at the mirrored image of the crewman and Cosmonaut Grigory Volkov.
Amaryllis slanted him a sidelong glance as he guided her through the darkened club.
The first and second were successfully darted, and we saw the whales staggeringly running off, fettered by the enormous sidelong resistance of the towing drugg.
At times he seemed to go facially mad, puckering his lips, raising his eyebrows in an exaggerated grimace and glancing sidelong over his long, sharp nose.
Sheykh, casting a nervous sidelong glance at the unusually stern-faced and formidable-appearing Sond, who was standing near the centerpole.
It was dark here, and Zull threw a sidelong glance at the blackness of a building wall.
Bannor stole a sidelong glance at his son, only to discover he was still burping up bubbles.
Hsuang said, casting a sidelong glance at the destruction caused by the single misfired bomb.
A part of me could see that the lights continued to blaze as before, and when I looked at the wheel out of the corner of my eye, in a sidelong glance, I could confirm its continued bright adornment, yet when I looked at it more directly, I saw only an ominously huge, portentously dark Ferris turning ponderously against a black sky, as if it were one of the mill wheels of Heaven-the one that relentlessly grinds out the flour of suffering and cruel misfortune.
Tanalasta sidelong, slamming her into Sarmon and Filfaeril and driving all three to the ground.
With sidelong glance, Sparkler saw Jake Lassop come from the office, just in time to meet the roulette operator.