oblique

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Basit İngilizce açıklama: Suggesting something without saying it directly or clearly.

• His oblique answer confused me.
• She made an oblique reference to the argument.
• Was that an oblique criticism of our work?

Nasıl kullanılır: oblique reference to something (She made an oblique reference to his debts.)

Eş anlamlılar: indirect, roundabout

Zıt anlamlılar: direct, explicit

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: oblique reference, oblique comment, oblique criticism, oblique answer

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Basit İngilizce açıklama: Sloping at an angle rather than going straight up, down, or across.

• An oblique line crossed the page.
• Sunlight reached the wall at an oblique angle.
• The artist added several oblique strokes.

Eş anlamlılar: slanting, slanted, diagonal

Sık kullanılan kalıplar: oblique line, oblique angle, oblique type, oblique plane