Crossword-Solution: OBLIQUE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Oblique | a. | Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined. |
| Oblique | a. | Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister. |
| Oblique | a. | Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral. |
| Oblique | n. | An oblique line. |
| Oblique | v. i. | To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction. |
| Oblique | v. i. | To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; -- formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
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greedy person
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Sentences with OBLIQUE (5)
With tract oblique At first, as one who sought access, but feard To interrupt, side-long he works his way.
The whole aspect was constantly changed by the oblique rays of the sun, or lost in the greyish fog amidst hurricanes of snow.
Glass, which is transparent--transmitting light--would be of no use to us as a mirror, were it not first coated on one side with a metalic amalgam, which interrupts the rays in their passage from the glass into the air, and throws them either directly in the incident line, or in an oblique direction.
Nioche appeared preoccupied, and left his budget of anecdotes unopened; he took a great deal of snuff, and sent certain oblique, appealing glances toward his stalwart pupil.
Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry.
Quotes with OBLIQUE (3)
Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
Language signifies when instead of copying thought it lets itself be taken apart and put together again by thought. Language bears the sense of thought as a footprint signifies the movement and effort of a body. The empirical use of already established language should be distinguished from its creative use. Empirical language can only be the result of creative language. Speech in the sense of empirical language - that is, the opportune recollection of a preestablished sign — …
One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by Gogol, Leskov, Bely, Remizov, and, in certain aspects of their work, also by Babel and Bulgakov. It is a tradition, paradoxically, of experimenters and innovators. Perhaps the principal quality that unites them is their approach to reality and its uses in art - the refusal to be bound by literal fact, the interweaving of reality an…
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Used 13 times in crossword archives (1970–2021).