0 said in a way that is not direct, so that the real meaning is not immediately clear:
The article refers to the controversy only obliquely.
1 in a slanting or sloping manner
At both sites, the game itself is only obliquely referred to, since most references are to events before or after the actual game.
The gaps are continuous, with three cracks running obliquely through the specimen and converging at a point dorsal to the skull fragment.
This characterization seems merely to obliquely acknowledge that particular response properties will change as a result of previous reinforcement.
People exist as effects of events they know only obliquely and partially.
As his compositions seem to have acknowledged, however obliquely, music cannot be made memorable through protest alone.
Here, we study the obliquely propagating low-frequency quasi-electrostatic waves generated by the anisotropic oxygen ions.
In these laminae, there was a moderate number of tangentially and obliquely oriented fibers with diffused terminals.
In this paper, we examine the structure of stationary waves propagating obliquely to the ambient magnetic field in a bi-ion plasma.