oblique: adjective; °Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.

"It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion. - Cheyne."; °Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.

"The love we bear our friends . . . Hath in it certain oblique ends. - Drayton."; noun; °An oblique line.; °The punctuation sign "/".; verb; °To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.; °To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.

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