sidelong

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On the screen was a boy, 11, in blue ear warmers and a jacket, being interviewed by one of the station’s reporters and giving a sidelong look and a sly half-grin.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2022

For this ambitious session, featuring a sidelong suite and two Coleman originals, the two hornmen temper their outward tendencies by leaning back into their roots of blues and a raucous Pentecostal church gospel.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022

Trapped along the sidelong, he shoveled the ball back to Dwight Garner, a freshman running back.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2021

And Andrea Riseborough is terrific expressing considerable disdain with just a sidelong glance.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2021

But just at this moment Napoleon stood up and, casting a peculiar sidelong look at Snowball, uttered a high-pitched whimper of a kind no one had ever heard him utter before.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell