Definition: obliquely

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

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]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.