[adv] - at an oblique angle
• (adv.) In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly.
aslant adverb at an oblique angle; `the sun shone aslant into his face`
Ob·lique'ly adverb In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly. 'Truth obliquely leveled.' Bp. Fell. « Declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray.» Pope « His discourse tends obliquely to the detracting from oth...
to, toward or at one side