The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sidewise \Side"wise`\, adv. On or toward one side; laterally; sideways.
I saw them mask their awful glance
Sidewise meek in gossamer lids.
--Emerson.
Wiktionary
adv. sideways
WordNet
adv. toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows" [syn: sideways, sideway]
with one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise" [syn: sideways, sideway]
from the side; obliquely; "a picture lit sideways"; "scenes viewed sidewise" [syn: sideway, sideways]
Usage examples of "sidewise".
As Bronden stepped back, Sulgate staggered sidewise, twisted about and spread-eagled on the floor.
Beautiful forms still hinted at hidden misshaping, there were sly quirks of lips, a sidewise leer of eye.
Veterans Building, Franz resumed his sidewise and backward peerings, now somewhat randomized, yet he was conscious not so much of fear as of wariness, as if he were a savage on a mission in a concrete jungle, traveling along the bottoms of perilously wailed, rectilineal gorges.
El Sangre bolted straight into the air and landed on legs of jack-rabbit qualities that flung him sidewise.
He dragged Tinker sidewise, half across the anteroom, while Bogo was hurrying up the steps.
The gyrocar kept rigidly upright while its occupants rolled sidewise in their seats.
I felt him turning and wriggling about as he looked back at the terrible receding city, ahead at the cave-riddled, cube-barnacled peaks, sidewise at the bleak sea of snowy, rampart-strewn foothills, and upward at the seething, grotesquely clouded sky.
Then the chair careened sidewise, and the Pindari shot downward, his forehead striking a marble slab, stunning him.
They saw Sartain roll sidewise and rest with his back slouched against the desk, his eyes staring upward.
As The Shadow twisted sidewise, to avoid the danger of the low-silled window, Shakes launched his body forward with terrific power.
Sidewise had his usual detached dreaminess, but he was sitting facing Moon, and Snowy saw how his gaze strayed over the curve of her hip, the centimeters of calf she showed above her boot.
And Saxon, glimpsing him sidewise, as he watched the horses and their way on the Sunday morning streets, checking them back suddenly and swerving to avoid two boys coasting across street on a toy wagon, saw in him deeps and intensities, all the magic connotations of temperament, the glimmer and hint of rages profound, bleaknesses as cold and far as the stars, savagery as keen as a wolf's and clean as a stallion's, wrath as implacable as a destroying angel's, and youth that was fire and life beyond time and place.
The crewman at the engineering station came over the railing at her, but she rolled him over her shoulder like so much falling meata sidewise leap and she was at the elevator doorwhich opened with a whoosh behind her.
He grabbed at Cates's rifle barrel and Cates kicked him in the groin, then swung the rifle barrel sidewise and caught the Indian across the skull.
The goblets chinked faintly, the tray began to slide, but she got her head under its center again with a swift sidewise ducking movement, and then began to go with long fearful steps around the horrid tile as far as she could to the right, so that the edge of the tray was hardly a finger's-breadth from the wall.