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b
: devious, underhanded
… the open, above-board fury of his mind coagulated, thickened, and sunk to a dull, evil hatred, a wicked, oblique malevolence.—Frank Norris
3
: situated at an angle and having one end not inserted on bone
oblique muscles
4
: taken from an airplane with the camera directed horizontally or diagonally downward
an oblique photograph
obliquely
adverb
obliqueness
noun
1
: something (such as a line) that is oblique
2
or oblique muscle
: any of several oblique muscles
especially
: any of the thin flat muscles forming the middle and outer layers of the lateral walls of the abdomen
: at a 45 degree angle
To the right oblique, march!
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