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Obliqueness   Listen
Obliqueness

noun
1.
The property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle.
2.
The quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly.  Synonym: deviousness.





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"Obliqueness" Quotes from Famous Books



... millions to their toil. She had a will of her own, and she had a heart all womanly. She was a beauty—yes, a beauty by any set rule of the world. Her large black eyes were neither slitted nor slanted in the Asiatic way. They were long, true, but set squarely, and with just the slightest hint of obliqueness that was ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London
... Vertrees resumed her obliqueness. "Of course," she murmured, "it all seems very premature, speculating about such things, but I had a queer sort of feeling that she seemed quite interested in this—" She had almost said "in this one," but checked herself. "In this young man. It's ...
— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington


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