Synonyms of the word

sidelong

• adj. Directed to the side; sideways.
• adj. Slanting or sloping; oblique.
• adj. Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward.
• adv. Towards the side; sideways.
• adv. obliquely.

askance

• adv. (of a look or glance) With disapproval, skepticism, or suspicion.
• adv. Sideways; obliquely.
• adj. Turned to the side, especially of the eyes.

askant

• adj. (dated) Aslant, or sloping.
• adv. (dated) Aslant, or askance, or sideways.

asquint

• adj. Looking sideways, as though warily.
• adv. With narrowed eyes.

inclined

• adj. At an angle to the horizontal; slanted or sloped.
• adj. Having a tendency, preference, likelihood, or disposition.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of incline.

indirect

• adj. Not direct; roundabout; deceiving; setting a trap; confusing.

lateral

• adj. To the side; of or pertaining to the side.
• adj. (anatomy) Pertaining to the left or right of the body; further from the midline.
• adj. (phonetics, phonology) Pertaining to sounds generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream…
• n. An object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.
• n. (linguistics) A sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral).
• n. (American football) A lateral pass.
• n. (business) An employee hired for a position at the same organizational level or salary as their previous…
• v. To move (oneself or something) in a lateral direction.
• v. (American football) To execute a lateral pass.

obliquely

• adv. in an oblique manner; sideways.

side

• n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
• n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
• n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
• n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
• n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the…
• n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.).
• n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
• n. One set of competitors in a game.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
• n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
• n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being…
• n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
• n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
• n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
• v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
• v. To lean on one side.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
• v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
• adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
• adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
• adj. (Britain archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing;…
• adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
• adv. (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.

sideways

• n. plural of sideway.
• adj. Moving or directed toward one side.
• adj. (informal) Positioned sideways (with a side to the front).
• adj. (informal) Neither moving upward nor moving downward.
• adj. (chiefly US, colloquial) Not as planned; towards a worse outcome.
• adj. (usually with "with", informal) In conflict (with); not compatible (with).
• adv. With a side to the front.
• adv. Towards one side.
• adv. Askance; sidelong.
• adv. (informal) Neither upward nor downward.

squint

• v. (intransitive) To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
• v. (intransitive) To look or glance sideways.
• v. (intransitive) To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion…
• v. (intransitive, Scotland) To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
• v. (transitive) To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
• n. An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
• n. The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
• n. A quick or sideways glance.
• n. A short look.
• n. A hagioscope.
• n. (radio transmission) The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased…
• adj. (Scotland) askew, not level.

squint-eyed

• adj. Having eyes that squint; cross-eyed.
• adj. Looking obliquely, or asquint; malignant.

squinty

• adj. Afflicted with a squint.
• adj. sidelong.