sideways > define
adjective
- Of movement. ( at an angle)
- synonyms: crabwise
adverb
- With one side forward or to the front.
- usage: "turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise"
- From the side; obliquely.
- usage: "a picture lit sideways"; "scenes viewed sidewise"
- Toward one side.
- usage: "the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows"
- To, toward or at one side.
- usage: "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
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