[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.", "(of a solid) not having the axis perpendicular to the plane of the base.", "diverging from a given straight line or course.", "not straight or direct, as a course.", "indirectly stated or expressed; not straightforward:oblique remarks about the candidate's honesty.Synonyms: covert , masked , veiled , indirect", "indirectly aimed at or reached, as ends or results; deviously achieved.Synonyms: covert , masked , veiled , indirect", "morally, ethically, or mentally wrong; underhand; perverse.", "Typography.(of a letter) slanting toward the right, as a form of sans-serif, gothic, or square-serif type.", "Rhetoric.indirect (applied to discourse in which the original words of a speaker or writer are assimilated to the language of the reporter).", "Anatomy.pertaining to muscles running obliquely the body as opposed to those running transversely or longitudinally.", "Botany.having unequal sides, as a leaf.", "Grammar.noting or pertaining to any case of noun inflection except nominative and vocative:Latin genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative cases are said to be oblique.", "Drafting.designating a method of projectionoblique projectionin which a three-dimensional object is represented by a drawingoblique? draw?ingin which the face, usually parallel to the picture plane, is represented in accurate or exact proportion, and all other faces are shown at any convenient angle other than 90°.Compare axonometric , cabinet(def19) cabinet(def19), isometric(def5) isometric(def5)."]}, {"Bold_text": "adverb", "List Items": ["Military.at an of 45°."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["Military.to change direction obliquely ."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["something that is oblique.", "Grammar.an oblique case.", "Anatomy.any of several oblique muscles, especially in the walls of the abdomen."]}]