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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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, contrawise, crabwise, crisscross, cross, cross-grained, crossway, crossways, crosswise, depthwise, deviately, deviously, digressively, divagationally, divergently, edgeway, edgeways, edgewise, excursively, flanking, glancing, glancingly, indirectly, laterad, lateral, laterally, lee, leeward, next-beside, obliquely, on its side, on one side, on the beam, overthwart, right and left, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sidewise, sidling, skirting, slantingly, slantways, slantwise, slaunchways, through, thwart, thwartly, thwartways, to one side, transverse, transversely, traverse, weather, widthways, widthwise, windward

Dictionary Results for sideways:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

sideways
    adv 1: with one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways
           to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise"
           [syn: sideways, sideway, sidewise]
    2: from the side; obliquely; "a picture lit sideways"; "scenes
       viewed sidewise" [syn: sideway, sideways, sidewise]
    3: toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch";
       "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows"
       [syn: sideways, sideway, sidewise]
    4: to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong out
       of a wizened face" [syn: sidelong, sideways, obliquely]
    adj 1: (of movement) at an angle [syn: crabwise, sideways]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sideways \Side"ways`\, adv.
   Toward the side; sidewise.
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         A second refraction made sideways.       --Sir I.
                                                  Newton.
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         His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . .
         Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings.   --Longfellow.
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