obliquely

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This narrow muscle of the thigh passes obliquely across the front of the thigh and helps rotate the leg to the position assumed in sitting cross-legged.
这块大腿上的狭长肌肉斜跨大腿前部，作用是在你采取盘腿坐姿时帮助旋转腿部，使其到位。
Only once, and then obliquely, were the uncounted mass of Iraqi dead referred to, when the archbishop prayed for "those whose memory we cherish, and those whose names we will never know".
大主教只有一次、而且是拐弯抹角地提到了不可胜数的死去的伊拉克人，他为“那些受我们怀念的人，以及那些我们永远都不知道名字的人”做了祈祷。
He also enjoyed sailing, which may have taught him how to proceed in the face of headwinds, obliquely harnessing the opposing blasts of bankers, politicians and colleagues to steer a forward course.
他也很喜欢航海，航海也许启发他如何逆风而行，斜驭闪避诸多银行业者、政客、同僚的连绵炮火，继续掌舵向前。

Though we avoid looking directly at prisons, they seep obliquely into our fashions and manners.
NEWYORKER: The Caging of America
Walgreen can't strong-arm the big PBMs. So it's trying to reach them obliquely.
FORBES: In The Pill Box
An Iraqi official dismissed the idea that the arms inspection should be revived and obliquely attacked the French and Saudi initiatives.
ECONOMIST: Dealing with Iraq

(not direct) said in a way that is not direct, so that the real meaning is not immediately clear
(angle) in a slanting or sloping manner