sidelong
Meanings
Adjective
- Directed to the side; sideways.
- Slanting or sloping; oblique.
- Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward.
- Along the side of something.
Adverb
- Towards the side; sideways.
- obliquely
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Origin
- 1520s, from Middle English sidlyng (early 14th century), from side + -lyng (modern English -le). Reanalyzed as side + long.
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