o·bliq·ui·ty 
(ō-blĭkwĭ-tē, ə-blĭk-)
(ō-blĭkwĭ-tē, ə-blĭk-)n. pl. o·bliq·ui·ties
1.
a. The quality or condition of being oblique, especially in deviating from a vertical or horizontal line, plane, position, or direction.
b. The angle or extent of such a deviation.
2.
a. Deviation from moral or proper conduct or thought: "Eleanor did not believe that early rising could possibly be compatible with moral obliquity" (Elizabeth Bowen).
b. An instance of this.
3. Indirection in conduct or verbal expression; lack of straightforwardness: "It may be that the candor of contemporary literature creates a nostalgia for indirection, obliquity and deferral" (Anatole Broyard).
o·bliqui·tous adj.
- unanimously
- unanimousness
- unannounced
- unanswerability
- unanswerable
- unanswerableness
- unanswerably
- unanticipated
- unanticipatedly
- unapologetic
- unapologetically
- unappealable
- unappealably
- unappealing
- unappealingly
- unappeasable
- unappeasably
- unappetizing
- unappetizingly
- unappreciated
- unappreciative
- unappreciatively
- unapproachability
- unapproachable
- unapproachableness