Thesaurus / oblique
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To target your obliques—the muscles on the sides of your stomach—slide your knee into your chest diagonally.
THE 6-MOVE SLIDERS WORKOUTJENNY MCCOYJULY 2, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEThe wait for assistance for a taxed bullpen, meanwhile, ended when Wander Suero was reinstated from the injured list following a left oblique strain.
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT FOR THE NATIONALS, WHO FALL TO THE PHILLIES IN 10 INNINGSGENE WANGMAY 13, 2021WASHINGTON POSTLikewise, while it seems imbedded with symbolism that is keyed to deeply personal associations from its creators – much like the work of David Lynch – those symbols are at once too ordinary and too oblique to make us care.
QUEER HORROR FILM CHOKES ON SURREALIST PRETENSIONS IN ‘THE ONE YOU FEED’JOHN PAUL KINGJANUARY 15, 2021WASHINGTON BLADESatellites can only peer down on smoke plumes from above or from oblique angles, and their payload is limited to lighter instruments.
WILDFIRE SMOKE TRAVELS FAR BUT NEVER REALLY DISAPPEARSJULIET GRABLEOCTOBER 7, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEThat said, the season seven writers never quite figured out how to hit the oblique angles in their relationship the way Sherman-Palladino did — the insults inside the compliments, the declarations of love inside the insults.
EVERY EPISODE OF GILMORE GIRLS, RANKEDCONSTANCE GRADYOCTOBER 6, 2020VOXTo do it, you create a sideways-facing C between your inside hip and shoulder by engaging your obliques, bringing your lower ribs toward your hip bones and rotating from the waist each time you initiate a downhill turn.
6 EASY WAYS TO BE A BETTER SKIERHEATHER HANSMANOCTOBER 1, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEEven the hardy Mohammedan was haggard and spent, and his oblique eyes glowed like the red embers of a dying fire.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYEven the light eyes seemed to have grown slightly oblique; the voice, the unimpassioned greeting, were those of a son of Cathay.
DOPESAX ROHMERTesta minuta oblique conica tenuis pellucida linea albida opaca et fasciis coccineis ornata, anfractibus valde convexis.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGLike the beams of the winter sun which have little warmth in them, the line of our vision is somewhat oblique.
HYMNS FROM THE EASTJOHN BROWNLIEWORDS RELATED TO OBLIQUE
- clandestine
- concealed
- crafty
- crooked
- cunning
- deceptive
- devious
- dirty-dealing
- dishonest
- dishonorable
- double-crossing
- duplicitous
- fraudulent
- furtive
- guileful
- hush-hush
- indirect
- insidious
- oblique
- on the Q.T.
- on the quiet
- secret
- secretive
- shady
- shifty
- slippery
- sly
- sneaking
- sneaky
- stealthy
- sub-rosa
- surreptitious
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- under wraps
- undercover
- underhanded
- unethical
- unfair
- unjust
- unscrupulous
- wily
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