Crossword clues for sidelong
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sidelong \Side"long`\, adv. [See Sideling, adv.]
Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
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On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong.
Note: [See Sideling, adv. ]
--Evelyn.
Sidelong \Side"long`\, a. Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.
The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love.
--Goldsmith.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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
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 at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson [syn: lateral]
inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker
adv. on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground"
with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face" [syn: sideways, 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.