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What is another word for Obliquing?

Pronunciation: [əblˈiːkɪŋ] (IPA)

Obliquing is a synonym for the term slanting, which means to take a diagonal or skewed position. Other synonyms for the word include tilting, inclining, angling, sloping, leaning, and canting. These words all refer to a movement or position that is not perpendicular or straight. Obliquing and its synonyms can be used to describe physical objects such as a slanted roof or a leaning tower, but they can also be used to express more abstract concepts, such as an oblique reference to a topic in a conversation or an oblique argument that avoids directly addressing the issue at hand.
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Usage examples for Obliquing

In this way I should rise by steps, as it were, Obliquing always in the direction of the hatchway.
"The Boy Tar"
Mayne Reid
They keep Canal, Obliquing to that side of the way farthest from the balconies- "To make room," cries Victorine, "to form line pritty soon off horses, in front those cannon'."
"Kincaid's Battery"
George W. Cable
The whole transaction was the work of a single instant; and before the squatters, who came with their slain leader, could sufficiently recover from the panic produced by the event to revenge his death, the youth was beyond their reach; and the assailing party of the guard, in front of the post, apprized of the sally by the discharge of the pistol, made fearful work among them by a general fire, while Obliquing to the entrance of the pass just in time to behold the catastrophe, now somewhat precipitated by the event which had occurred below.
"Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia"
William Gilmore Simms

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