Portuguese
oblíquo Slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled.
Portuguese
caso oblíquo Catalan
cas oblic A diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso.
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Posteromedial retinacular structures and posterior oblique ligament were injured in all cases.
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Sometimes the Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to a somewhat oblique achievement.
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And the picture is bright enough to remain visible from oblique angles.
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The dugouts, lined with lifts, descend in oblique parallels into the depths.
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She answered one of his oblique questions with crisp assent, ignored another.
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Green-eye creates, but it is an oblique side effect of something else.
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Rabbit moves a few steps closer to get a less oblique view.
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These are wonders, disturbing and astonishing, yet encoded, oblique renderings of experience.
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A hideous yellow face with oblique squinting eyes, appeared in the aperture.
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This is the oblique road by which the English press is bribed.
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Not even an oblique sort of hint- Iheara lot of those.
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Camera work, filled with disquieting oblique shadows, is elegant and atmospheric throughout.
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They weren't talking about me-exceptthat, in some oblique way, they were.
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The Japanese lieutenant smiled till his little oblique optics were scarcely perceptible.
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The US poet's verse, which has gone viral, is an oblique mini-masterpiece.
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The Indians scowled on us, glancing malignantly out of their oblique eyes.
