sidelong

Adjective

• inclining or directed to one side
  • moved downward in a sidelong way - Bram Stoker
    

• situated at or extending to the side
  • the lateral branches of a tree
    
  • shot out sidelong boughs- Tennyson
    

• (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
  • her eyes with their misted askance look- Elizabeth Bowen
    
  • sidelong glances
    

Adverb

• to, toward or at one side
  • darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face
    

• with the side toward someone or something
  • seated sidelong to the window- Nathaniel Hawthorne
    

• on the side
  • the plow lay sidelong on the ground
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  lateral , askance , askant , asquint , squint , squint-eyed , squinty , sideways , obliquely