obliquely

Example Sentences

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Steeped in first-person portraiture, the film depicts peripheral characters obliquely, like a shadow without a body.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025

Many schools referred only obliquely to the newly confrontational relationship between the federal government and higher ed in commentary accompanying their investment returns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, however, remarked obliquely that "he had never heard of him".

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024

In doing so, the review’s authors obliquely recommend psychological therapies as the only choice for trans youth in the U.K.

From Slate • Oct. 9, 2024

No one yet had accused Holmes of foul play, but the intensity of this new wave of inquiry was greater, more obliquely accusatory, than anything he previously had experienced.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson