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side-handedly

side-handedly adverb: indirectly.

Adverb

side-handedly (comparative more side-handedly, superlative most side-handedly)

  1. Indirectly
    • While Kiko seemed to understand my intention to use this task to side-handedly ask him questions about himself, he played along, indicating that he would like to have the power of a ninja who could control his chakra, that he worried about losing power, and at times wanted to be invisible...2008, Lawrence C. Rubin, Popular Culture in Counseling, Psychotherapy, and Play-Based Interventions, →ISBN, page 236
    • Also, it's right-sized in terms of its overall dimensions, especially in contrast with its larger brother, the previously and side-handedly derided X3, which is based on the new, larger 3-Series.2013 April 21, Brett Berk, “Reviewing, Relenting, and Recommending a Crossover”, in Vanity Fair

Forms of side-handedly

comparativemore side-handedly
superlativemost side-handedly

Origin of side-handedly

From side-handed + -ly.

Questions about side-handedly

What does side-handedly mean?
Side-handedly means indirectly.
What part of speech is side-handedly?
Side-handedly is an adverb.

Words near side-handedly in the dictionary

  1. side-gaze
  2. side-glance
  3. side-glances
  4. side-hand
  5. side-handed
  6. side-handedly
  7. side-handing
  8. side-hands
  9. side-lever
  10. side-levers
  11. side-line

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