sidelong
/ˈsʌɪdlɒŋ
/adjective & adverb
Directed to or from one side; sideways: [as adjective]: Steve gave her a sidelong glance [as adverb]: he looked sidelong at her with a quick smile...
- Other diners in the cafeteria cast sidelong glances as they hear his Québécois accent decry the injustices of the street.
- She gives me a sidelong glance from behind the white frames of her glasses.
- He had to endure years of sidelong glances at the school gate.
Synonyms
indirect, oblique, sideways, sideward, side;
surreptitious, furtive, covert, sly
indirectly, obliquely, sideways, out of the corner of one's eye;
surreptitiously, furtively, covertly, slyly
archaic askance
Origin
Late Middle English: alteration of earlier sideling, from side + the adverbial suffix -ling.
- mislead
- misleader
- misleading
- misleadingly
- misleadingness
- mislearn
- mislearned
- mislearning
- mislest
- mislick
- pseudoparesis
- pseudoparthenogenesis
- pseudopatient
- pseudopelade
- pseudoperculate
- pseudoperculum
- pseudoperidium
- pseudoperiodic
- pseudoperipteral
- pseudoperipteros
- pseudoperithecium
- pseudophone
- pseudophotograph
- pseudopigmentation
- pseudoplankton