oblique

Adjective

• indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading
  • used devious means to achieve success
    
  • gave oblique answers to direct questions
    
  • oblique political maneuvers
    

• slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled
  • the oblique rays of the winter sun
    
  • acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles
    
  • the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base
    

Noun

• a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso

• any grammatical case other than the nominative

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  devious , external oblique muscle , musculus obliquus externus abdominis , abdominal external oblique muscle , oblique case
• Antonyms: 
  parallel , perpendicular , nominative , nominative case , subject case