2 uses
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Definition
indirect; i.e., not straightforward
- Then, advancing obliquely towards us, came a fifth.1.12 — Book 1 Chapter 12 — What I Saw of the Destruction of.... (59% in)
- He held it pointing obliquely downward, and a bank of steam sprang from the water at its touch.1.17 — Book 1 Chapter 17 — The "Thunder Child" (79% in)
There are no more uses of "oblique" in The War of the Worlds.
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