OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 11510

oblique

/əˈbliːk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
enviajado • oblicuo
Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
Italic fonts are sometimes described as oblique in typographic terminology.
when it has a Direction oblique to that of the former Motion, it is either added to, or subtracted from the former Motion
oblicuo
Not straightforward; indirect; by implication; (sometimes even) obscure, ambiguous, or confusing.
The email from HR obliquely informed her that some complaints about her had been received.
This mode of oblique research, where a more direct one is denied, we find to be the only one in our power.
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