All 3 Uses of
oblique
in
The Age of Innocence
- In the centre of this enchanted garden Madame Nilsson, in white cashmere slashed with pale blue satin, a reticule dangling from a blue girdle, and large yellow braids carefully disposed on each side of her muslin chemisette, listened with downcast eyes to M. Capoul's impassioned wooing, and affected a guileless incomprehension of his designs whenever, by word or glance, he persuasively indicated the ground floor window of the neat brick villa projecting obliquely from the right wing.†
Chpt 1
- They began, obliquely, by talking about Mrs. Lemuel Struthers.†
Chpt 5 *
- Archer was silent, and Mr. Jackson obliquely continued: "It's a pity—it's certainly a pity—that she refused it."†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(oblique as in: an oblique reference) indirect; i.e., not straightforward