- obliquity
- n1. obliqueness, wryness, deflection, deviousness; divergence, deviation, divagation; indirection, circumlocution, meandering, maundering, swerve, zigzag, Chess. knight's move; digression, excursion, discursion, tangent; Statistics. skewness.2. inclination, incline, slant, slope, leaning, lean; angularity, bias, bevel, bezel; tilt, pitch, sway, tip, cant, rake; grade, ramp, bank, side, scarp; All Geol. syncline, anticline, anacline, catacline.3. dishonesty, under handedness, deceit, falseness, deception; false-heartedness, insidiousness, treacher-ousness, perfidiousness, duplicity; cunning, Inf. skulduggery, sneakiness, guile, guilefulness, artfulness.4. perversity, immorality, turpitude, decadence, corruptness; unvirtuousness, moral delinquency, ungoodness, criminality, sinfulness; prodigality, waywardness, recidivism, carnality.5. obscurity, obfuscation, unclearness, opacity; babble, jumble, garble, scramble, blur; riddle, puzzle, enigma, perplexity, confusion.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.