Sidelong in a sentence as an adjective

I think you’re right, they flicker when you look at them sidelong.

I thought you'd be dangerous and uncouth.”“I am.”She glanced up at him sidelong.

So while I've been glancing sidelong at the ML work going on, it's been mostly a checklist of "Oh cool.

Sidelong in a sentence as an adverb

I dare say that many of us could say the same, while reminiscing among friends, and still hope to avoid getting too many sidelong looks.

Transparency would mean not making repeated sidelong denials of each facts that the investigation raised, trying to spin them down.

His style is a casual one, but bursts with sidelong allusions to history, literature, art and etymological punnery.

Sidelong definitions

adjective

(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy; "her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen; "sidelong glances"

See also: askance askant asquint squint squint-eyed squinty

adjective

situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson

See also: lateral

adjective

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

adverb

on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground"

adverb

with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne

adverb

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

See also: sideways obliquely