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Synonyms for sideways
ˈsaɪdˌweɪzside·ways
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Princeton's WordNet
crabwise, sidewaysadverb
(of movement) at an angle
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crabwiseAntonyms:
perpendicular, parallelsideways, sideway, sidewiseadverb
with one side forward or to the front
"turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise"
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sidelong, obliquely, sidewise, sidewayAntonyms:
perpendicular, parallelsideway, sideways, sidewiseadverb
from the side; obliquely
"a picture lit sideways"; "scenes viewed sidewise"
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sideway, sidelong, obliquely, sidewiseAntonyms:
perpendicular, parallelsideways, sideway, sidewiseadverb
toward one side
"the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows"
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sidelong, obliquely, sidewise, sidewayAntonyms:
parallel, perpendicularsidelong, sideways, obliquelyadverb
to, toward or at one side
"darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
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sidewise, aslant, sidelong, obliquely, athwart, sidewayAntonyms:
perpendicular, parallel
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#551 | side | |
#5484 | aside | |
#21714 | sideways | |
#46085 | laterally | |
#87805 | obliquely | |
#172227 | sidelong | |
#177396 | athwart | |
#260621 | sidewise | |
#325170 | sideway |
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This was the diving board area, and I was one of the guards, and they werent allowed to -- it was a 3-meter board. And if you fell off sideways, you landed on the damn, er, darn cement over there.
Then a man came over and shoved his badge in my face and took the bag out of the bin and then plopped it back in sideways so it purposely would n’t fit.
U.S. markets really are taking their cues from what's happening outside the country as we head into the earnings season, valuations are still high and earnings are going to be rough with companies adding not more than 1-3 percent year over year. We expect the market to continue moving sideways for the remainder of the year.
This guy, when I saw him, for a fast jet with the wheels down, I said, 'I think he's coming in too low,' then he was 90 degrees -- sideways -- and then he went belly-up into the house and it was a ball of fire. It was terrible.
Half of it was flying down sideways on the building.
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