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adv. to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"

adv. with one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise"

adv. toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows"

sideway, sideways, sidewise

adv. from the side; obliquely; "a picture lit sideways"; "scenes viewed sidewise"

crabwise, sideways

adj. (of movement) at an angle

crooked

adj. having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"

askew, awry(p), cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff

adj. turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"

furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious

adj. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"

sidelong

adj. inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker

devious, circuitous, roundabout

adj. deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"

diversionary

adj. (of tactics e.g.) likely or designed to confuse or deceive

meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), winding

adj. of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road"

direct

adj. moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

straight

adj. having no deviations; "straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders"

straight, consecutive

adj. successive (without a break); "sick for five straight days"

balanced

adj. being in a state of proper equilibrium; "the carefully balanced seesaw"; "a properly balanced symphony orchestra"; "a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history"; "a balanced blend of whiskeys"; "the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers"

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