slanting or sloping; not straightforward or direct indirect; slanting slanting, indirect, evasive, devious, misleading evasive diverging from a straight line or course, not straightforward slanting or sloping not straight; slanting, inclined, or sloping. not expressed or done in a direct way. \\"he issued an oblique attack on the President\\" synonyms: indirect, inexplicit, roundabout, circuitous, circumlocutory, implicit, implied, elliptical, evasive, backhanded; **not straightforward; indirect Herbert never explicitly revealed anything negative about Tom\\'s past, but at times he would obliquely suggest that Tom was not as innocent as he seemed. **This word has other definitions but this is the most important one for the GRE. à¦¤à§à¦°à¦à¦¾ oblique, crooked, awry, bevel à¦¬à¦à§à¦° curved, oblique, bended, crooked, circuitous, cambered à¦à¦¸à¦à¦¾à¦¨à§à¦¤à¦°à¦¾à¦² oblique à¦à¦¡à¦¼ squint, oblique, other, opposite, half à¦¤à¦¿à¦°à§à¦¯à¦à§ oblique, skew, slantwise, sidelong, transverse, indirect à¦¬à¦¾à¦à¦à¦¾ curved, crank, cranked, harsh, hunched, oblique à¦à§à¦°à¦¾ awry, oblique, squint-eyed, cross-eyed, skew-eyed à¦à§à¦¡à¦¼à¦¾ sidelong, oblique, awry, squint, squint-eyed à¦à¦¸à§ evil, bad, ill, immoral, roguish, oblique à¦à¦¸à¦°à¦² evasive, tortuous, disingenuous, indirect, curved, oblique à¦¤à¦¿à¦°à§à¦¯à¦ diagonal, transverse, oblique, skew, indirect, roundabout à¦à§à¦£à¦¾à¦à§à¦£à¦¿ diagonally, diagonal, oblique à¦¤à§à¦¯à¦¾à¦°à¦à¦¾ oblique à¦¢à¦¾à¦²à§ oblique, steepy Definition of Oblique not in a straightforward manner Examples of Oblique in a sentence The slight wink was Larry\\'s oblique way of flirting with me. Because the commercial is oblique in its sexual references, it has not been pulled from the Christian network. Putting a dead rat on a person\\'s doorstep is an oblique way in which the mob has been known to warn possible snitches. To avoid worrying his wife, the man made an oblique statement about the seriousness of his medical condition. Chad made an oblique reference about his wife\\'s weight by purchasing her a gym membership.