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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obliquely \Ob*lique"ly\, adv
In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly. ``Truth
obliquely leveled.'' --Bp. Fell.
Declining from the noon of day The sun obliquely
shoots his burning ray. --Pope
His discourse tends obliquely to the detracting from
others --Addison.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
obliquely
adv 1: to toward or at one side "darting eyes looking sidelong out
of a wizened face" [syn: {sidelong}, {sideways}]
2: at an oblique angle; "the sun shone aslant into his face"
[syn: {aslant}, {athwart}]
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