sidewards

Leaving the Spanish capital - even for a club as illustrious at Arsenal - would be viewed as, at best, a sidewards step.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

"This needs to be a very precise regulatory tool and not a sledgehammer, otherwise it might take football sidewards, or even backwards, rather than forwards."

From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2023

She swung sidewards, on one wing, and onlookers thought it was a bank; but suddenly there was a roar.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was not looking at her but far away sidewards across the spreading hill.

From The Crock of Gold by James Stephens

The original significance of the root nib seems to be "leaning;" anibeia, "it is leaning"; anibekweni, "he inclines the head sidewards."

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery