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catty-corner

catty-corner \catty-corner\ catty-cornered \catty-cornered\adj. 1. having a slanted or oblique direction.

Syn: bias, catacorner, cata-cornered, catercorner, cater-cornered, diagonal, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered, oblique, skew, skewed, slanted.

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catty-corner

a. (context US Canada English) cater-corner#English

WordNet
catty-corner

adj. slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line; "set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot" [syn: catacorner, cata-cornered, catercorner, cater-cornered, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered]

Usage examples of "catty-corner".

Sparrow and I sat on his antique swinging divan, facing out across the plantation lawn, looking out over the pond, where a little family of hesperornis sailed in stately formation, Sinclair catty-corner in a chair, closer to Sparrow than me.

Ilsa had said she peddled bobwire and other hardware from her house, But why would, say, a retail merchant or homesteader tether catty-corner across the way instead of smack out front?

Catty-corner to my apartment is the Police Department, a small red-brick building with perky gingham cafe curtains across the window and two parking spaces out front with Reserved signs in front of them.

He filled it with golden oak furniture and Oriental screens, chandeliers dripping crystal, wine velvet loveseats with buttons and more buttons up and down their backs, heavy paintings leaning out from the walls, curlicued urns, doilies, statuary, bric-a-brac, great globular lamps centered on tasseled scarves, and Persian rugs laid catty-corner and overlapping.

Catty-corner across the road, next to McHenry's electronics store, The Quilting Bee had finally given up the ghost, old Laura moving all of her stuff out yesterday.