obliquely
Example Sentences
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But the chief justice did obliquely gesture at some of the challenges facing the judiciary in Trump’s second term.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025
Steeped in first-person portraiture, the film depicts peripheral characters obliquely, like a shadow without a body.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
The audience is visible obliquely off to the side or in raking shots.
From Salon • Dec. 25, 2024
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, however, remarked obliquely that "he had never heard of him".
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024
Aware that this letter, too, would be read by the authorities, Holmes used it to reinforce, obliquely, his claims of innocence.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Vocabulary lists containing obliquely
A Wrinkle in Time
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The Boys in the Boat
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"The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol
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