Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being oblique.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality or state of being oblique.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The characteristic of being
oblique .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly
- noun the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle
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Examples
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If anything, in a world where our sprawling media attempt to explain everything to us and yet end up spitting out so much chatter and noise, they’re weirder than ever — their very obliqueness is satisfyingly direct ....
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Lost is * frequently* needlessly obtuse, and too often uses that obliqueness as an excuse for actual cleverness.
Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 3 “I.F.T.” is a Slow Burn and a Saucy Acronym | /Film 2010
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Along the way Wije and Ari get into fisticuffs over the legality of Muttiah Muralitharan's bowling action; their friend Jonny, who shares their passion for sport, as well as secretly nurturing a passion for young men, is attacked by villagers and imprisoned; and in the larger background, always referred to with the utmost obliqueness, there are riots, burnings, and wars – domestic and otherwise.
Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka – review 2011
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Eyes, piercing and black and large, with a traditionary hint of obliqueness, looked forth from under clear-stencilled, clean-arching brows.
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They were long, true, but set squarely, and with just the slightest hint of obliqueness that was all for piquancy.
Chapter 15 2010
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Hill knows that the sinister is enhanced by obliqueness.
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Disconcerted by my obliqueness, the man said, "How can I do this in a bathing suit?"
Beard 2010
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I will say this: despite the movie's tiresome obliqueness, in the lead role, Puiu creates a genuinely unnerving fellow.
Michael Giltz: Cannes 2010 Day Two and Three: Wall Street 2 Stock Down, The Housemaid Burns Up 2010
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Then in a resonant, pedantic tone, reminiscent of the age, the art restorer snarls: Damn fools — perception rests on guarded obliqueness — destitute meandering of sight — guttural vicissitude kept well hidden behind the eye allows us to envision cold tomorrows without the trumpeting of the glib future — Bob interrupts her: Who are you?
Smoke and Mirrors 2010
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It makes sense to me that you would prefer the obliqueness of what you describe as the Cageian approach rather than the Ginsberg approach.
Ken, Yuh Draw Bad Card : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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