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slantinˈdicularly, adv.
[See prec.]
In a slanting or sloping direction or position; obliquely. Also fig., indirectly.
α1839Marryat Diary Amer. Ser. i. I. 110 Others mounting slantingdicularly and Paul-Prying into the bedroom windows. 1869Eng. Mech. 19 Nov. 230/1 He sits slantingdicularly, as he does on the..bicycle. 1880‘Wildfowler’ Mod. Wildfowling 66 The shoulder guns were resting ‘slantingdicularly’.
β1834De Quincey in Tait's Mag. I. 86 For..a sunrise and a sunset, ought to be seen from the valley or horizontally,—not, as the man of Kentuck expressed it, slantindicularly. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxi, Glancing—however slantin'dicularly—at the subject in hand, I would say [etc.]. 1884Punch 22 Nov. 245/2 Some ‘gees’..Who go slantindicularly down the street. |