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obliquity noun

  /oʊˈblɪkwɪti/ , /əˈblɪkwɪti/
  • (astronomy, by extension, of a planet) Axial tilt.
 akselin kaltevuus
  • Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality. [from 15th c.]
 kieroutuneisuus, pahe
  • The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation. [from 15th c.]
 vinous

oblique adjective

  /oʊˈbliːk/ , /ɑːbˈlaik/ , /əˈbliːk/
  • Not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base.
 vino, epäsuora, hämäräperäinen, kiero
  • Not straightforward; obscure or confusing.
  • Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
  • (grammar, of speech or narration) Indirect; employing the actual words of the speaker but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person and adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
 epäsuora, hämäräperäinen, kiero

obliqueness

vinous
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