obliquely
English
Etymology
oblique + -ly
Adverb
obliquely (comparative more obliquely, superlative most obliquely)
- In an oblique manner; sideways.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 99:
- Then, advancing obliquely towards us, came a fifth.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part I, page 206:
- Finally I descended the hill, obliquely, towards the trees I had seen.
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