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SIDELONG
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sidelong mean?
• SIDELONG (adjective)
The adjective SIDELONG has 3 senses:
1. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
2. situated at or extending to the side
3. inclining or directed to one side
Familiarity information: SIDELONG used as an adjective is uncommon.
• SIDELONG (adverb)
The adverb SIDELONG has 3 senses:
1. on the side
2. with the side toward someone or something
3. to, toward or at one side
Familiarity information: SIDELONG used as an adverb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
Synonyms:
askance; askant; asquint; sidelong; squint; squint-eyed; squinty
Context example:
sidelong glances
Similar:
indirect (not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Situated at or extending to the side
Synonyms:
lateral; sidelong
Context example:
shot out sidelong boughs
Similar:
side (located on a side)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Inclining or directed to one side
Context example:
moved downward in a sidelong way
Similar:
inclined (at an angle to the horizontal or vertical position)
Sense 1
Meaning:
On the side
Context example:
the plow lay sidelong on the ground
Sense 2
Meaning:
With the side toward someone or something
Context example:
seated sidelong to the window
Sense 3
Meaning:
To, toward or at one side
Synonyms:
Context example:
darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face
Context examples
"You won't give anyone a chance," said Laurie, with a sidelong glance and a little more color than before in his sunburned face.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
They stood listening all three with sidelong heads.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He gave me a sidelong glance out of his sinister red eyes, and laughed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Martin remembered himself, and flung Brissenden, by the neck, sidelong upon the bed, at the same moment releasing his hold.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His face fell, and I could see a warning of danger in it, for there was a sudden fierce, sidelong look which meant killing.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“My name is John Robinson,” he answered with a sidelong glance.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Full into the firelight, with a stealthy, sidelong movement, glided a doglike animal.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Mrs. Lexington is her name—a little, dark, silent person, with suspicious and sidelong eyes.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Ha!” cried Sir Nigel, with a sidelong glance.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He moved downwards in a sidelong way, some hundred feet down, and a good deal to the left.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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