oblique

• backhanded
• crooked
• diagonal
• leaning
• sloped
• sloping
• tilted
• uneven
• vague

• even
• horizontal
• level
• regular
• straight
• uniform
• vertical

• noun
1. An oblique line.
2. (grammar) The oblique case.
3. A slashing action or motion, particularly:.
4. A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly:.
5. Something resembling such a mark, particularly:.
6. The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
7. Slash fiction.
8. A drink of something; a draft.
9. A piss: an act of urination.
10. A swampy area; a swamp.
11. A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
12. The period of a transitory breeze.
13. An interval of good weather.
14. The loose part of a rope; slack.
• verb
1. To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.
2. 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.
3. To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
• adjective
1. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.
2. Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.
3. Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
4. Of leaves, having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
5. Of branches or roots, growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
6. (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
7. (grammar) Of speech or narration, indirect, employing the actual words of the speaker, but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person, adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
8. Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.

• The artist used oblique lines to create a sense of movement in the painting.
• Sarah's oblique comment hinted at her true feelings without directly stating them.
• The detective took note of the suspect's oblique answers during questioning.
• The writer employed oblique references to historical events to add depth to the novel.
• The oblique rays of the setting sun cast long shadows across the landscape.

raked

• comb
• combed
• found
• leaning
• oblique
• pitched
• scanned
• scour
• scrape
• searched
• sloped
• sloping
• surveyed

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