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Sidelong

adjective

(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy. Synonyms: askance, askant, asquint, squint, squint-eyed, squinty. "Sidelong glances"

Situated at or extending to the side. Synonym: lateral. "Shot out sidelong boughs"

Inclining or directed to one side.

adverb

On the side.

With the side toward someone or something.

To, toward or at one side. Synonyms: obliquely, sideways.

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"Sidelong" Quotes from Famous Books

... that, as she dipped up each ladleful of water, she watched the dipper out of the corner of her eye, as it were, with a sort of partial, sidelong glance, but that all the while her gaze was ...

— The Unwilling Vestal • Edward Lucas White

... "'T will be glad news to some," he said, with a sidelong look at Brereton, "that thy sympathies have always been with us. I presume thou hast simply been doing the British soldiery all the harm that thou couldst under guise of friendliness. I'll warrant thou'st ...

— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... demonstration of contempt before, and he guessed at once that they had further displeased the rabble. It was even as he had thought. The four bearers with folded arms contemplated the threatening crowd with a sidelong gaze of contempt. The stately Israelite stood in a dream, her brilliant eyes fixed in profound preoccupation on the distance. Kenkenes knew by the present attitude of the group that they had made no obeisance to Amen. Hence the mutterings ...

— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller

... books," he continued, with his sly, merry, sidelong glance. "You think that I was overcareful of the ground, that morning behind the church, and so unfortunately delayed matters until the Governor happened by and brought ...

— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston

... there was an alternate swelling and sinking of the muscles, as the animal alighted on his feet and leaped away again, which Terry felt as plainly as if he had held his open hand on the shoulder. Then, too, the bull had a peculiar sidelong motion, as though some of his muscles occasionally got out of "gear," and the action of the hind legs did not "dovetail," so to speak, with that of the ...

— The Hunters of the Ozark • Edward S. Ellis

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