adjective
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directed or inclining to one side
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indirect or oblique
adverb
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Origin of sidelong
Example Sentences
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As it happened, the state of the world was addressed, sidelong and directly.
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There are light topical references — a sidelong joke about the names billionaires give their children, for example — but the show happily lives in its world of day-to-day annoyances and victories.
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“I’m turning on you,” Smith replies with a sidelong glance.
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Against the committee-room grandstanding of popular memory, the series thus fashions the entire Eisenhower era from the raw materials of the closet, from subtext, secrets, sidelong glances and confidential tones.
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It can arise in the classroom or workplace, and take the form of a subtle snub, a direct insult or sidelong glance.
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