Associations to the word «Sidewise»

Wiktionary

SIDEWISE, adverb. Sideways

Dictionary definition

SIDEWISE, adverb. Toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch"; "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the shadows".
SIDEWISE, adverb. With one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways to show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise".
SIDEWISE, adverb. From the side; obliquely; "a picture lit sideways"; "scenes viewed sidewise".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats