Synonyms for obliqueness
- hill
- ramp
- shelf
- abruptness
- bank
- bend
- bevel
- bias
- cant
- declination
- declivity
- deflection
- descent
- deviation
- diagonal
- downgrade
- gradient
- inclination
- incline
- lean
- leaning
- obliquity
- pitch
- rise
- skew
- steepness
- swag
- sway
- tip
- rising ground
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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR OBLIQUENESS
They were long, true, but set squarely, and with just the slightest hint of obliqueness that was all for piquancy.
WORD ORIGIN
early 15c., from Middle French oblique (14c.) and directly from Latin obliquus "slanting, sidelong, indirect," from ob "against" (see ob-) + root of licinus "bent upward," from PIE root *lei- "to bend, be movable" (see limb (n.1)). As a type of muscles, in reference to the axis of the body, 1610s (adj.), 1800 (n.). Related: Obliquely; obliqueness.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR OBLIQUENESS
evasion
nounescape, avoidance- artifice
- circumvention
- cop-out
- cunning
- ditch
- dodge
- dodging
- elusion
- equivocating
- equivocation
- eschewal
- evading
- evasiveness
- excuse
- fancy footwork
- fudging
- fugiviteness
- fugivity
- jive
- lie
- obliqueness
- pretext
- prevarication
- quibble
- routine
- run-around
- ruse
- shift
- shirking
- shuffling
- shunning
- slip
- sophism
- sophistry
- stall
- stonewall
- subterfuge
- trick
- trickery
slope
nounslant, tiltRoget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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