ob|liq|ui|ty

ob|liq|ui|ty
ob|liq|ui|ty «uh BLIHK wuh tee», noun, plural -ties.
1. indirectness or crookedness of thought or behavior, especially conduct that is not upright and moral: »

a moral obliquity which grated very harshly against Ilbrahim's instinctive rectitude (Hawthorne).

 SYNONYM(S): deviation.
2. the fact or condition of being oblique.
3. inclination, or degree of inclination.
4. Astronomy. the angle (about 23 degrees 27 minutes) between the planes of the ecliptic and the equator.

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