Crossword-Solution: OBLIQUITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Obliquity | n. | The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator. |
| Obliquity | n. | Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “OBLIQUITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| state or condition of being oblique | 1 answer |
| quality of being oblique | 1 answer |
| tortuousness | 15 answers |
| subtext | 15 answers |
| roundabout nature | 16 answers |
| obliqueness | 16 answers |
| Twisty? | 16 answers |
| indirectness | 16 answers |
| implicitness | 16 answers |
| indirect nature | 17 answers |
| Zig-zagging | 17 answers |
| circuitousness | 18 answers |
| winding | 31 answers |
| roundabout | 40 answers |
| gradient | 47 answers |
| Incline | 62 answers |
| Slope | 66 answers |
| List | 71 answers |
| Pitch | 107 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with OBLIQUITY (5)
Whatever of moral timidity or obliquity may have lain in such a decision, no perception of it was strong enough to detain him.
And yet it is this very obliquity of thought and memory which makes mental disease such a fascinating study.
The writer had just entered into his eighteenth year, when he met at the table of a certain Anglo-Germanist an individual, apparently somewhat under thirty, of middle stature, a thin and weaselly figure, a sallow complexion, a certain obliquity of vision, and a large pair of spectacles.
The auditor paid much attention to these romances, and sometimes interrupted them by brief remarks upon the incidents, displaying shrewdness above his years, mingled with a moral obliquity which grated very harshly against Ilbrahim's instinctive rectitude.
But that is not all, that is not his worst defect; his worst defect is his perpetual moral obliquity, perpetual—from the days of the Flood to the Schleswig-Holstein period.
Quotes with OBLIQUITY (1)
The Moon stabilizes Earth's obliquity. Well, almost. The tilt actually varies between 22 and 24.5 degrees - and the variation is enough to induce such environmental inconveniences as the occasional ice age. Without the Moon, it might be much worse.