obliquity
Example Sentences
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Such a slouch, or obliquity, gives us our seasons.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023
It’s not a question of subtlety, which the stage can accommodate, but obliquity, which feels like an evasion of theater’s confrontational power.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021
Sweeping statements were made about genre and obliquity and readerly expectations.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2019
Now, astronomers are proposing that shifts in obliquity could do even more.
From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2019
It was this confidence that had blinded his eyes to the moral obliquity of his contract with Felix Muller.
From A Gamble with Life by Hocking, Silas K. (Silas Kitto)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.