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Obliqueness

noun
1.
The property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle.
2.
The quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly.  Synonym: deviousness.






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"Obliqueness" Quotes from Famous Books



... Vertrees resumed her obliqueness. "Of course," she murmured, "it all seems very premature, speculating about such things, but I had a queer sort of feeling that she seemed quite interested in this—" She had almost said "in this one," but checked herself. "In this young man. It's ...
— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington



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