sideways
/ˈsaɪdweɪz/ adverb C2- With a side to the front. · He builds houses sideways, with the front door on the side.
- Towards one side. · A bishop moves only diagonally; a rook, only sideways, forward, and back.· He looked sideways at the new arrival, wondering who she was.
- Askance; sidelong.
- Neither upward nor downward. · The economy has been moving sideways for several months now.
- Not as planned; towards a worse outcome. · We realized the project could go sideways very quickly if we didn't get the sales and marketing people on our side.
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Yes, I saw the picture—a young woman with her head on her hands, peeping at you sideways.”
The answer was a perfectly indescribable hiss, and Mowgli kicked up his feet behind, clapped his hands together to applaud himself, and jumped on to Bagheera’s back, where he sat sideways, drumming with his heels on the glossy skin and making the worst faces he could think of at Baloo.
Rikki jumped sideways and tried to run in, but the wicked little dusty gray head lashed within a fraction of his shoulder, and he had to jump over the body, and the head followed his heels close.
Next year anybody who wears them will have to go through a door sideways.”
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