obliqueness
[ uh-bleek, oh-bleek; Military uh-blahyk, oh-blahyk ]
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.
RELATED WORDS AND SYNONYMS FOR OBLIQUENESS
- 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.