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Meanings of obliquity in English
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obliqüitat Synonyms
Examples for "deceptiveness"
Examples for "deceptiveness"
1
The acquired deceptiveness of the world of men was leaving them.
2
She was not yet used to the deceptiveness of Japanese appearances.
3
That's the deceptiveness and the deceitfulness of the human heart.
4
He is ever watchful for the deceptiveness of appearances, ever prepared to admit everything, to explain everything, and to believe nothing-butwhat he sees.
5
From there, the options were scrutinized by Marine snipers for visual deceptiveness in daylight and darkness (using night-vision goggles) before being electronically altered again.
Usage of obliquity in English
1
For his indiscretions, never involving moral obliquity, he had most grievously answered.
2
In their opinion, only the strangest obliquity of judgment can explain such infatuation.
3
There seemed to be a kind of natural obliquity about her.
4
We are told that the difference is one of moral obliquity.
5
But this now carries with it no implication of moral obliquity.
6
Her very directness piqued me to a perverse and delicious obliquity.
7
And here we come to a most extraordinary obliquity of the feminine eye.
8
But surely there is no veil of secrecy about moral obliquity!
9
Eyes large and fairly wide apart, with just the faintest hint of Mongol obliquity.
10
Into mortal mind's material obliquity I gazed and stood abashed.
11
Such occurrences were rare, however, for her obliquity always seemed mental rather than moral.
12
The Chinese also determined the obliquity of the ecliptic eleven hundred years before our era.
13
They were at present bent to still greater obliquity by the heaviness of their produce.
14
And yet her conscience inarticulately accused her of obliquity.
15
Other tracks took a direction of longitudinal obliquity, and then implicated both epiphysis and diaphysis.
16
They think the obliquity the beauty of the campanile, the blurring the charm of the sketch.
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