oblique

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Editorial note

No, but my point was a bit oblique.

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Quick take

any grammatical case other than the nominative

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of oblique gathered in one view.

noun

any grammatical case other than the nominative

noun

a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso

adjective

slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for oblique.

noun

any grammatical case other than the nominative

noun

a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso

adjective

indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading; "used devious means to achieve success"; "gave oblique answers to direct questions"; "oblique political maneuvers"

Example sentences

No, but my point was a bit oblique.

I'd guess that this is an oblique reference to working in finance.

Sorry for the oblique phrasing -- I was trying to avoid being self-promotional.

So here's an oblique question, one that does not argue with your perfectly understandable feelings about Freedom of Speech.

A precursor is a very strong dynamic wind caused by the shells oblique angle of approach, and its high horizontal speed.

Let me try again since apparently I was a little oblique: Consider the set of statements you could make to announce that you have a full pipeline.

"an open corridor down the middle"So the next innovation will be an open corridor on an oblique line from a back corner to the instructor.

I will say I've never forgiven them for cheerleading the Iraq War and then publishing an oblique and weasel-worded come-down in about 2008.

[1] Sorry about being so oblique, the transaction was complicated and not particularly germane to the story.

Near the equinoxes, the Sun's apparent path is more oblique, so some of its apparent velocity occurs in the north-south direction leaving its apparent east-west motion slower.

So, a couple sentences admonishing the masses to write something better plus one oblique reference to him "trying like hell to make it happen" equals "trying to bring forward a better alternative"?Show me the fucking code, Jeff.

All languages are incredibly oblique to their runtime environments, especially in distributed scenarios.

It's not a responsiveness or tracking issue, it's that interacting with screens at oblique angles is annoying and many times tilt/rotation interactions require pretty large arm movements compared to finger movements, limiting when and where they're useful.