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Webster 1913 Edition

Obliquely

Ob-lique′ly

,

adv.

In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly.

“Truth obliquely leveled.”

Bp. Fell.

Declining from the noon of day,
The sun

obliquely

shoots his burning ray.

Pope

His discourse tends

obliquely

to the detracting from others.

Addison.