noun
1. the property of being neither parallel nor perpendicular, but at a slanting angle
• Derivationally related forms: ↑oblique
• Hypernyms: ↑spatial property, ↑spatiality
2. the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly
• Syn: ↑deviousness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑oblique, ↑devious (for: ↑deviousness)
• Hypernyms: ↑indirectness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.