sidelong Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
    askant; askance; asquint; squinty; squint; squint-eyed.
    • her eyes with their misted askance look"- Elizabeth Bowen
    • sidelong glances
  2. adjective satellite situated at or extending to the side
    lateral.
    • the lateral branches of a tree
    • shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson
  3. adjective satellite inclining or directed to one side
    • moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker
  4. adverb on the side
    • the plow lay sidelong on the ground
  5. adverb with the side toward someone or something
    • seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  6. adverb to, toward or at one side
    obliquely; sideways.
    • darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face

WordNet

Side"long` adverb
Etymology
See Sideling, adv.
Definitions
  1. Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
  2. On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong. See Sideling, adv. Evelyn.
Side"long` adjective
Definitions
  1. Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.
    The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love. Goldsmith.

Webster 1913