oblique triangle

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any triangle that does not have a right angle (contrasted with right triangle).

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Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

This Texas Triangle now has the same population as the entire State of Florida.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The scorned party in a love-triangle, he blew his head off while serving overnight tower duty in 2007.
A Million Ways to Die in Prison|Daniel Genis|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The definition of “innuendo,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “an oblique allusion.”
Bill Cosby’s Long List of Accusers (So Far): 18 Alleged Sexual Assault Victims Between 1965-2004|Marlow Stern|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For her first film, she played a woman caught in a love triangle between a nightclub owner and a country boy.
Does Fashion Week Exploit Teen Models?|Jennifer Sky|September 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The Playlist, on the other hand, called it “too oblique, too delighted with itself, and frankly, too dull to admire…much.”
Josh Charles on Life After ‘The Good Wife’ and His Insane Movie ‘Bird People’|Kevin Fallon|September 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On the other hand, the arrows along the sides of the triangle represent actual circulation.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
He was a narrow-headed man with frail-looking sloped shoulders and a thin triangle of face.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
Even the hardy Mohammedan was haggard and spent, and his oblique eyes glowed like the red embers of a dying fire.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Even the light eyes seemed to have grown slightly oblique; the voice, the unimpassioned greeting, were those of a son of Cathay.
Dope|Sax Rohmer
There are sixty thousand acres of mighty good spruce in that triangle between us, and it's as good as ours.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland