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61sidelong — Synonyms and related words: aside, askance, askant, aslant, aslope, asquint, at an angle, atilt, away, backhand, backhanded, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, broadside, broadside on, canting, careening, circuitous, circuitously, covert, crabwise,… …
62sideways — Synonyms and related words: across, across the grain, aside, askance, askant, aslant, aslope, asquint, at an angle, athwart, athwartships, breadthwise, broad side foremost, broadside, broadside on, broadways, broadwise, circuitously, contrariwise …
63around — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adv. & prep. surrounding, about; near, neighboring. See nearness, environment. II (Roget s IV) modif. & prep. 1. [Surrounding] Syn. about, in this area, on all sides, on every side, in circumference,… …
64circuity — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Indirectness Nouns circuity, circuitousness, circuition, circumvention, circumlocution, indirectness; bypass, roundabout way, ambages, detour, loop, winding, zigzag, deviation. See avoidance, convolution.… …
65deviation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Turning away Nouns deviation; swerving, warp, refraction; deflection, declination; diversion, divergence, digression, excursion, departure from, aberration; zigzag; siding; detour, bypass, byroad,… …
66directly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adv. straightway, immediately, instantly, promptly; bluntly, flatly, unequivocally; expressly; straight. See instantaneity, direction. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [In a direct way or line] Syn. straight,… …
67circuitous — cir|cu|i|tous [sə:ˈkju:ıtəs US sə:r ] adj going from one place to another in a way that is longer than the most direct way ▪ a hard, circuitous hike >circuitously adv …
68abandon — [14] The Old French verb abandoner is the source of abandon. It was based on a bandon, meaning literally ‘under control or jurisdiction’, which was used in the phrase mettre a bandon ‘put someone under someone else’s control’ – hence ‘abandon… …
69circuitous — (adj.) 1660s, from M.L. circuitous full of roundabout ways, from L. circuitus a going round (see CIRCUIT (Cf. circuit)). Related: Circuitously …
70collaterally — adv. indirectly, circuitously, in a roundabout manner …
