Sidelong

Definition: Sidelong

Sidelong

Adjective

1. (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".

2. Situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson.

3. Inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker.

Adverb

1. On the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground".

2. With the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne.

3. To toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sidelong" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Synonyms: Sidelong

Laterality

Adverb: sideways, sidelong; broadside on; on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside; by the side of; side by side; cheek by jowl; (near); to windward, to leeward; laterally; Adjective: right and left; on her beam ends.

Adjective: lateral, sidelong; collateral; parietal, flanking, skirting; flanked; sideling.

Crosswords: Sidelong

These days you cast rapid, calculating, sidelong glances (Viskningar och rop; writing credit: Ingmar Bergman)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature/Audio Cassettes [ABRIDGED] (reference)

• The Nature of Things on Sanibel: A Discussion of the Animal and Plant Life of Sanibel Island, With a Sidelong Glance at Some of Their Relatives Elsewhere (reference)

• The Sidelong Glance: Politics, Conflict & the Church (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "sidelong": give smb. a sidelong glance ♦ sidelong glance. Additional references.

Albanian

tërthor (abeam, aslant, athwart, criss cross, cross, sideways, transversal, transverse, traverse), anësor (collateral, fringe, lateral, marginal, peripheral, secondary, side, sideways, wing, winger). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مائل (atilt, awry, bent, bevel, bias, cock eyed, diagonal, inclined, oblique, skew, slant, slanted, slantwise, slope, sloping, stooping, thwart, titled), ‏غير مباشر (circuitous, circumstantial, indirect, mediate, oblique, roundabout, sinuous, vicarious), ‏جانبي (lateral, profiling, side, sidy, square). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кос (bevel, blackbird, oblique, ousel, ouzel, sideward, sideways, skew, slantways, slantwise, splay, thwart, transversal, transverse), движещ се встрани. (various references)

Czech

ze strany (edgeways), kosý (oblique, slant). (various references)

Farsi 

یکوری , کج (Askance, Askew, Awry, Crank, Crump, Devious, Gauche, Indirect, Lopsided, Sinister, Slant, Snafu, Thwart, Wry), جانبی (Lateral), درکنار (Ashore, Beside, Besides, By), بطوراریب (Slantwise). (various references)

Finnish

syrjäsilmäys (sidelong glance), pälyillä (gaze, give a sidelong glances, glance, peer). (various references)

French

oblique (sideways), en oblique, de côté (side, sideways, sidy). (various references)

German

seitwärts (askance, askew, laterally, sideward, sidewards, sideways), seiten- (lateral, side). (various references)

Greek 

πλάγιοσ (aslant, bevel, circuitous, devious, indirect, lateral, oblique, side, slanting), πλαγίωσ (sideway, sideways, slantingly, thwart), λοξόσ (askew, awry, cockeyed, crackpot, devious, kinky, oblique, rakish, skew, slant, slanting, transverse, wry). (various references)

Hebrew 

מצו�"�" (crabwise, sideways), לצ�", צ�"�"י (accessory, incidental, lateral, side, sideways, subsidiary). (various references)

Hungarian

oldalsó (lateral, side). (various references)

Indonesian

lirikan (look, sidelong glance). (various references)

Italian

obliquo (askance, askew, cross, devious, indirect, lopsided, oblique, sideward, slanting, sloped, sloping, slopingly, transversal, underhand, wry), obliquamente (askance, athwart, slantwise). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

流し目 (sidelong glance). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ながしめ (sidelong glance). (various references)

Manx

lhiattagh (lateral). (various references)

Pig Latin

idelongsay.(various references)

Portuguese

oblíquo (aslant, aslope, asquint, awry, canted, oblique, sideling, skew, slanting, sloping, wry), lateral (asquint, incidental, off, side), indireto (circuitous, collateral, indirect, mediate, oblique), de lado (aside, askance, askant, askew, bias, side, sideling, sideward, sidewards, sideways, up), de esguelha (askew, sideling, slantwise, wry). (various references)

Romanian

oblic (aslant, asquint, athwart, bias, diagonal, inclined, oblique, obliquely, skew, slanting, sloping, splay, squint, transverse), la o parte (aside, by, make room, stand aside), de o parte (aside, sideways). (various references)

Russian 

косой (bevel, cock eyed, cock-eye, cross-eyed, leer, oblique, skew, slantindicular, slanting, slantingdicular, splay, squinteyed, squint-eyed, thwart, walleyed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ustranu (sideward, sidewards, sideways), porebarke, pobočno, nastranu (sideward), iskošen (crosscut, slant, slanting), bočni (aisle, lateral, overside, side, sideling, sideways). (various references)

Spanish

lateral (lateral, side, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise). (various references)

Swedish

sned (askew, cock eyed, cockeyed, crooked, lop-sided, oblique, skew, slanting, wry), sido- (collateral, incidental, lateral, sideways), från sidan. (various references)

Thai

เอียงไป�"้านข้าง, เอียงไปข้างหนึ่ง. (various references)

Turkish

yanlamasına (askew, aslant, edgeways, edgewise, laterally, sideward, sidewards, sideways, sidewise), yan taraftan, yan (ancillary, aslant, asquint, awry, by-, bye-, collateral, flank, flanking, lateral, parietal, side, sideward, subordinate). (various references)

Ukrainian

убік (aside, past, sideward, sidewards), косо (askance, askew, aslant, aslope, athwart, awry, obliquely, sideway, sideways, sidewise, slant, slantwise, splay), косий (askew, awry, bevel, boss-eyed, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross-eyed, diagonal, oblique, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skew, slant, slanting, splay), навскоси, боком (sideway, sideways, sidewise), похилий (askew, aslope, canting, declining, downhill, inclined, oblique, prone, slanting, sloping). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xiên về phía bên, ở bên; xiên về phía bên lé cạnh khoé; bóng gió, ở bên (lateral). (various references)

lima, limo, limum. (various references)

Misspellings

"Sidelong" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sicelo. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: dingles, dingoes, dongles, eloigns, engilds, glenoid, indoles, legions, lingoes, longies, singled.

-2 letters: deigns, design, dinges, dingle, dogies, doings, doling, dongle, donsie, dosing, eloign, eloins, engild, geoids, glides, golden, indole, indols, ingles, insole, legion, lesion, lodens, lodges, longed, longes, losing, noised, oldies, oleins, onside, signed, siloed, singed, single, soigne, soiled, soling.

-3 letters: deign, deils.

+1 letter: alongside, delousing, godliness, modelings, soldering.

+2 letters: desolating, despoiling, euglenoids, evildoings, girandoles, gondoliers, longitudes, melodising, sloganized, smoldering, soldiering, ungodliest.

+3 letters: bobsledding, delegations, demolishing, depolishing, diagnosable, disboweling, dislodgment, dispeopling, dogsledding, dragonflies, fingerholds, gadolinites, ganglioside, godlikeness, godlinesses, goldfinches, grandiosely, longsighted, lysogenised, lysogenized, resoldering, shouldering, smouldering, soldierings, ungodliness, unsoldering.

+4 letters: bobsleddings, bowdlerising, cladogenesis, deglutitions, demonologies, demonologist, dendrologies, dendrologist, deontologies, deontologist, desolatingly, diagnoseable, diagonalizes, digressional, disbowelling, dislodgement, dislodgments, gangliosides, glucuronides, goaltendings, indigenously, misknowledge, overindulges, redissolving, resoundingly, slaveholding.