Both Uses of
oblique
in
The House of Mirth
- Mrs. Peniston, on whom she had looked in a day or two after the dinner, laid down her crochet-work and turned abruptly from her oblique survey of Fifth Avenue.†
Chpt 1.11 *
- But today her steps were irresistibly drawn toward the flaring plate-glass corner; she tried to take the lower crossing, but a laden dray crowded her back, and she struck across the street obliquely, reaching the sidewalk just opposite the chemist's door.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(oblique as in: an oblique reference) indirect; i.e., not straightforward