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sideways

[ sahyd-weyz ]

adverb

  1. with a side foremost.
  2. facing to the side.
  3. toward or from one side.
  4. with a deceitful, scornful, disparaging, or amorous glance.


adjective

  1. moving, facing, or directed toward one side.
  2. indirect or evasive.

sideways

/ ˈɪˌɱɪ /

adverb

  1. moving, facing, or inclining towards one side
  2. from one side; obliquely
  3. with one side forward
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. moving or directed to or from one side
  2. towards or from one side
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sideways1

First recorded in 1570–80; side 1 + -ways
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Idioms and Phrases

see knock for a loop (sideways) ; look sideways at .
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Example Sentences

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I accidentally told my best friend, like sideways, because my friend who lives with me, he saw some stills on the washing machine.

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Instead, they swim sideways, spend much of their time underwater, have long snouts and are almost completely blind.

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Dr Rebecca Bell, a reader in tectonics at Imperial College London, said that to accommodate all of this motion, faults - cracks in the rock - form which allow tectonic plates to "slither" sideways.

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In space, there is no up, down or sideways.

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In France's tournament opener, after their heavy brigade had bashed away at a stubborn Wales defence for 12 phases, Dupont picked up the ball and dawdled sideways and backwards off the back of the breakdown.

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