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- sinistral
collapse - of or on the left; "a sinistral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the left when facing the observer"; "a sinistral flatfish lies with the left eye uppermost"
- preferring to use left foot or hand or eye; "sinistral individuals exhibit dominance of the left hand and eye" related words >
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- circuitous,
- counterclockwise,
- deflectional,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- devious,
- digressive,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- excursive,
- indirect,
- larboard,
- left,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- left-wing,
- left-wingish,
- levorotatory,
- liberal,
- near,
- nigh,
- oblique,
- port,
- radical,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistrocerebral,
- sinistrocular,
- sinistrogyrate,
- sinistromanual,
- sinistrorse,
- southpaw
- backhanded
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- roundabout or ambiguous; "attacks from that source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity"; "a backhanded and dishonest way of reaching his goal" related words >
- O-shaped,
- abusive,
- ambagious,
- atrocious,
- backhand,
- calumnious,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- contumelious,
- deflectional,
- degrading,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- excursive,
- helical,
- humiliating,
- indirect,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- left-handed,
- meandering,
- oblique,
- offensive,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- outrageous,
- rotary,
- round,
- roundabout,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- spiral,
- unspeakable
- digressive
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- (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that"
- of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark" related words >
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- aimless,
- ambagious,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- by the way,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- discursive,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- episodic,
- errant,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- helical,
- indirect,
- labyrinthine,
- left-handed,
- loose,
- maundering,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- rotary,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- serpentine,
- shifting,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- snaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- swerving,
- turning,
- twisting,
- undirected,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- winding,
- zigzag
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- aimless,
- ambagious,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- by the way,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- episodic,
- errant,
- erratic,
- helical,
- indirect,
- labyrinthine,
- left-handed,
- loose,
- maundering,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- rotary,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- serpentine,
- shifting,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- snaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- swerving,
- turning,
- twisting,
- undirected,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- winding,
- zigzag
- circuitous
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- marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend" related words >
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- ambagious,
- anfractuous,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- circular,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- collateral,
- convolutional,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- errant,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- flexuose,
- flexuous,
- helical,
- indirect,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involutional,
- labyrinthine,
- left-handed,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- periphrastic,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- rivose,
- rivulose,
- rotary,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- ruffled,
- serpentine,
- shifting,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinuate,
- sinuose,
- sinuous,
- snaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- swerving,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortuous,
- turning,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- undirected,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- whorled,
- winding,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- zigzag
- abusive,
- all thumbs,
- atrocious,
- awkward,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- blunderheaded,
- blundering,
- boorish,
- bumbling,
- bungling,
- butterfingered,
- calumnious,
- careless,
- circuitous,
- clownish,
- clumsy,
- clumsy-fisted,
- contumelious,
- cumbersome,
- deflectional,
- degrading,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- devious,
- digressive,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- excursive,
- fingers all thumbs,
- fumbling,
- gauche,
- gawkish,
- gawky,
- graceless,
- ham-fisted,
- ham-handed,
- heavy-handed,
- hulking,
- hulky,
- humiliating,
- indirect,
- inelegant,
- insolent,
- insulting,
- left-hand,
- loutish,
- lubberly,
- lumbering,
- lumpish,
- maladroit,
- oafish,
- oblique,
- offensive,
- outrageous,
- ponderous,
- scurrile,
- scurrilous,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinistromanual,
- sloppy,
- southpaw,
- stiff,
- uncouth,
- ungainly,
- ungraceful,
- unhandy,
- unspeakable,
- unwieldy
- sidelong
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- inclining or directed to one side; "moved downward in a sidelong way" - Bram Stoker
- to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face"
- with the side toward someone or something; "seated sidelong to the window"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- on the side; "the plow lay sidelong on the ground" 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,
- deflectional,
- deviant,
- deviately,
- deviative,
- devious,
- deviously,
- digressive,
- digressively,
- divagational,
- divagationally,
- divergent,
- divergently,
- edgeway,
- edgeways,
- edgewise,
- excursive,
- excursively,
- flanking,
- glancing,
- glancingly,
- in juxtaposition,
- inclinational,
- inclinatory,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- indirect,
- indirectly,
- laterad,
- lateral,
- laterally,
- leaning,
- lee,
- leeward,
- left-handed,
- listing,
- nearby,
- next-beside,
- oblique,
- obliquely,
- on its side,
- on one side,
- on the beam,
- on the side,
- out of plumb,
- out of square,
- pitched,
- raking,
- recumbent,
- right and left,
- shelving,
- shelvy,
- side,
- sideling,
- sideward,
- sidewards,
- sideway,
- sideways,
- sidewise,
- sidling,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- skirting,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slantways,
- slantwise,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- surreptitious,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- tipping,
- tipsy,
- to one side,
- to the side,
- weather,
- windward
- oblique
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- any grammatical case other than the nominative
- slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base" related words >
- O-shaped,
- across,
- ambagious,
- angle,
- angle off,
- angling,
- askew,
- aslant,
- athwart,
- atilt,
- awry,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- banked,
- banking,
- bear off,
- bend,
- bias,
- cambered,
- canted,
- canting,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- clandestine,
- collateral,
- crook,
- crooked,
- cross,
- crossway,
- crossways,
- crosswise,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deflect,
- deflectional,
- deviant,
- deviate,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- devious,
- diagonal,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- divagate,
- divagational,
- diverge,
- divergent,
- diverging,
- evasive,
- excursive,
- false,
- furtive,
- helical,
- implied,
- inclined,
- inclining,
- indirect,
- leaning,
- left-handed,
- meandering,
- oblique angle,
- oblique figure,
- oblique line,
- offhand,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- overthwart,
- periphrastic,
- pitched,
- pitching,
- rhomboid,
- rotary,
- round,
- roundabout,
- scratch comma,
- separatrix,
- sheer,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- skew,
- slant,
- slanted,
- slanting,
- slash,
- sloped,
- sloping,
- slue,
- sly,
- solidus,
- spiral,
- surreptitious,
- sway,
- swerve,
- thwart,
- tilted,
- tilting,
- tipped,
- transversal,
- transverse,
- traverse,
- turn,
- twist,
- underhanded,
- veer,
- virgule
- indirect
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- not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination; "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "you must take an indirect course in sailing"
- extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action; "making indirect but legitimate inquiries"; "an indirect insult"; "doubtless they had some indirect purpose in mind"; "though his methods are indirect they are not dishonest"; "known as a shady indirect fellow"
- having intervening factors or persons or influences; "reflection from the ceiling provided a soft indirect light"; "indirect evidence"; "an indirect cause"
- not as a direct effect or consequence; "indirect benefits"; "an indirect advantage" related words >
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- accessory,
- accidental,
- additional,
- adscititious,
- adventitious,
- ambagious,
- amoral,
- ancillary,
- artful,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- calculating,
- chiseling,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- circumambient,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- collateral,
- collusive,
- coming,
- conscienceless,
- contingent,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- covinous,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- errant,
- erratic,
- evasive,
- eventual,
- excursive,
- false,
- falsehearted,
- felonious,
- finagling,
- final,
- fishy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- helical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- incidental,
- insidious,
- labyrinthine,
- last,
- left-handed,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- periphrastic,
- planetary,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- rotary,
- rotten,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- scheming,
- secondary,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shameless,
- sharp,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinuous,
- slippery,
- snaky,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- subordinate,
- subsidiary,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- swerving,
- tortuous,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- two-faced,
- ultimate,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undirected,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- wily,
- winding,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- zigzag
- sinister
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- on or starting from the wearer's left; "bar sinister" related words >
- adverse,
- amoral,
- antagonistic,
- apocalyptic,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- base,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- circuitous,
- conflicting,
- conscienceless,
- contrary,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- counter,
- counteractive,
- counterclockwise,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- dark,
- deflectional,
- detrimental,
- deviant,
- deviative,
- devious,
- diabolical,
- difficult,
- digressive,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- doomful,
- doubtful,
- dreary,
- dubious,
- evasive,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- excursive,
- fateful,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- foreboding,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- gloomy,
- hard,
- harmful,
- hostile,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- immoral,
- improper,
- in opposition,
- inaccurate,
- inauspicious,
- indirect,
- inexpedient,
- inferior,
- inimical,
- insidious,
- invalid,
- larboard,
- left,
- left-hand,
- left-handed,
- left-wing,
- left-wingish,
- levorotatory,
- liberal,
- lowering,
- malefic,
- maleficent,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- menacing,
- minacious,
- minatory,
- miserable,
- near,
- nefarious,
- nigh,
- not easy,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- opposed,
- opposing,
- opposite,
- peccant,
- pernicious,
- port,
- portending,
- portentous,
- questionable,
- radical,
- rigorous,
- rotten,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifty,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinful,
- sinistral,
- sinistrocerebral,
- sinistrocular,
- sinistrogyrate,
- sinistrorse,
- slippery,
- sneaky,
- somber,
- stressful,
- suspicious,
- threatening,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- troublesome,
- troublous,
- trying,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- unethical,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unhealthy,
- unkind,
- unlucky,
- unpleasant,
- unprincipled,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unskillful,
- unstraightforward,
- untoward,
- vicious,
- villainous,
- wicked,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- wretched,
- wrong
- devious
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- deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"
- indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading; "used devious means to achieve success"; "gave oblique answers to direct questions"; "oblique political maneuvers"
- characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive; "a devious character"; "shifty eyes" related words >
- Byzantine,
- O-shaped,
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- ambagious,
- amoral,
- anfractuous,
- artful,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- balled up,
- bending,
- calculating,
- canny,
- circuitous,
- circular,
- complex,
- complicated,
- confounded,
- confused,
- conscienceless,
- convoluted,
- corrupt,
- corrupted,
- crabbed,
- crafty,
- criminal,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- curving,
- daedal,
- dark,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- designing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- dishonest,
- dishonorable,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- diverting,
- double-dealing,
- doubtful,
- dubious,
- duplicitous,
- elaborate,
- embrangled,
- entangled,
- errant,
- erratic,
- erring,
- evasive,
- excursive,
- felonious,
- fishy,
- fouled up,
- foxy,
- fraudulent,
- furtive,
- guileful,
- helical,
- ill-got,
- ill-gotten,
- immoral,
- implicated,
- indirect,
- insidious,
- insincere,
- intricate,
- involuted,
- involved,
- knotted,
- knowing,
- labyrinthian,
- labyrinthine,
- left-handed,
- lonesome,
- loused up,
- many-faceted,
- matted,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- messed up,
- misleading,
- mixed up,
- mucked up,
- multifarious,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- pawky,
- perplexed,
- planetary,
- plotting,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- ramified,
- remote,
- removed,
- retired,
- rotary,
- rotten,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- scheming,
- screwed up,
- secret,
- secretive,
- serpentine,
- shady,
- shameless,
- shifting,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinuous,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- snarled,
- sneaking,
- sneaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- surreptitious,
- suspicious,
- swerving,
- tangled,
- tangly,
- tortuous,
- treacherous,
- tricky,
- turning,
- twisted,
- twisting,
- unconscienced,
- unconscientious,
- unconscionable,
- underhand,
- underhanded,
- undirected,
- unethical,
- unprincipled,
- unsavory,
- unscrupulous,
- unstraightforward,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- vulpine,
- wandering,
- wily,
- winding,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- zigzag
- divergent
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- tending to move apart in different directions
- diverging from another or from a standard; "a divergent opinion" related words >
- aberrant,
- abnormal,
- altered,
- amorphous,
- anomalistic,
- anomalous,
- antagonistic,
- antipathetic,
- antithetical,
- apart,
- assorted,
- asunder,
- at cross-purposes,
- at loggerheads,
- at odds,
- at variance,
- at war,
- atypical,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- better,
- bipartite,
- capricious,
- centrifugal,
- changeable,
- changed,
- changing,
- choppy,
- circuitous,
- clashing,
- conflicting,
- contradictory,
- contrary,
- contrasted,
- contrasting,
- converted,
- counter,
- crank,
- crankish,
- cranky,
- cross,
- crotchety,
- deflectional,
- degenerate,
- delta-shaped,
- deltalike,
- deltoid,
- departing,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- dichotomous,
- different,
- differentiated,
- differing,
- digressive,
- disaccordant,
- disagreeable,
- disagreeing,
- discontinuous,
- discordant,
- discrepant,
- discrete,
- discriminated,
- disharmonious,
- disjoined,
- disorderly,
- disparate,
- disproportionate,
- dissident,
- dissimilar,
- dissonant,
- distant,
- distinct,
- distinguished,
- divagational,
- divaricate,
- divaricating,
- diverging,
- divers,
- diverse,
- diversified,
- diversiform,
- dotty,
- eccentric,
- erose,
- erratic,
- exceptional,
- excursive,
- fan-shaped,
- fanlike,
- fey,
- flaky,
- formless,
- freakish,
- funny,
- grating,
- hardly like,
- heteroclite,
- heterogeneous,
- heteromorphic,
- hostile,
- idiocratic,
- idiosyncratic,
- immiscible,
- improved,
- impulsive,
- in disagreement,
- in two,
- inaccordant,
- incoherent,
- incompatible,
- incongruous,
- inconsistent,
- inconsonant,
- inconstant,
- indirect,
- inharmonious,
- insular,
- irreconcilable,
- irregular,
- jagged,
- jangling,
- jarring,
- jerky,
- kinky,
- kooky,
- left-handed,
- maggoty,
- many,
- mercurial,
- metamorphosed,
- metastasized,
- modified,
- motley,
- multifarious,
- mutable,
- mutant,
- negative,
- noncohesive,
- nonconformist,
- nonstandard,
- nonuniform,
- nutty,
- oblique,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off-key,
- offbeat,
- opposite,
- out,
- out of accord,
- out of whack,
- palmate,
- palmated,
- partitioned,
- peculiar,
- pluralistic,
- poles apart,
- poles asunder,
- qualified,
- queer,
- quirky,
- ragged,
- rebuilt,
- reformed,
- renewed,
- repugnant,
- revived,
- revolutionary,
- rough,
- scarcely like,
- screwball,
- screwy,
- separate,
- separated,
- several,
- shapeless,
- side,
- sidelong,
- singular,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- spasmodic,
- splayed,
- sporadic,
- strange,
- stray,
- straying,
- subnormal,
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- transformed,
- translated,
- transmuted,
- twisted,
- unalike,
- unassociated,
- unattached,
- unattended,
- unconformable,
- uncongenial,
- unconnected,
- unconventional,
- unequable,
- unequal,
- uneven,
- unharmonious,
- unidentical,
- unjoined,
- unlike,
- unmatched,
- unmitigated,
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- unorthodox,
- unregular,
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- unsystematic,
- ununiform,
- variable,
- variant,
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- variegated,
- variform,
- various,
- varying,
- wacky,
- wandering,
- wavering,
- whimsical,
- widely apart,
- worlds apart,
- worse
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