sideways

About 2.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Moving or directed toward one side.

   Giving Mary a sideways glance, he said, […] .

2. adjective Positioned sideways (with a side to the front).

   There was a stack of papers in front of each seat at the table, but each stack was sideways.

3. adjective Neither moving upward nor moving downward.

   Once we get out of this sideways economy, our figures will more accurately reflect what we're truly capable of.

4. adjective In conflict (with); not compatible (with).

   He was constantly getting sideways with his boss till he got fired.

5. adverb With a side to the front.

   He builds houses sideways, with the front door on the side.

6. adverb Towards one side.

   A bishop moves only diagonally; a rook, only sideways, forward, and back.

7. adverb Askance; sidelong.
8. adverb Neither upward nor downward.

   The economy has been moving sideways for several months now.

Similar words

sidelong sidewise obliquely oblique indirect crabwise askew awry backwards aside

Often followed by

and to at in on glance into as with