sidelong

  • (s) (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
    • "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen
    • sidelong glances
    askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty,
  • (r) on the side
    • the plow lay sidelong on the ground
  • (r) with the side toward someone or something
    • "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • (s) situated at or extending to the side
    • the lateral branches of a tree
    • "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson
    lateral,
  • (s) inclining or directed to one side
    • moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker
  • (r) to, toward or at one side
    • darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face
    obliquely, sideways,

Synonyms

askance askant asquint squint squint-eyed squinty lateral obliquely sideways

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