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2. askew, skew, aslant, awry, wry, askant, askance, asquint; knock-kneed, Inf. cockeyed, Brit, wonky, Brit, skew-whiff; athwart, transverse; leaning, stooping, clinaj, battered, bevel; biased, warped, shelving, shelvy, tipsy, slantways; acclivous, uphill, declivous, downhill.
3. indirect, crooked, zigzag, divergent, deviant, devious, deflectional; divagational, digressive, circuitous, ambagious, backhanded, roundabout; discursive, excursive, deviating, tangential, errant; rambling, meandering, maundering, circumlocutory, periphrastic.
4. sly, sinister, disingenuous, surreptitious; covert, hugger-mugger, masked, behind one's back, under one's breath; arcane, underground, obreptitious; cloaked, veiled, sneaking, clandestine, furtive; insidious, false-hearted, false, deceptive, deceitful, Inf. shady, dark, Inf. fishy, Inf. not kosher.
5. perverse, underhand, underhanded, wrong; decadent, vitiated, profligate, reprobate; immoral, corrupt, unchaste, unvirtuous; prodigal, wayward, recidivistic, wanton, carnal. -n. 6. slant, slash, diagonal, virgule, transverse, rhomboid.

obliquity, n. 1. 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, underhandedness, deceit, falseness, deception; false-heartedness, insidiousness, treacherousness, 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.

obliterate, v. 1. exterminate, annihilate, discreate, reduce to nothing, wipe out, sweep away, dissolve, eliminate, extirpate, destroy totally, decimate, liquidate; raze, ravage, level, tear down, tear to the ground, topple, gut, blast, devastate, ruin, despoil, desolate, demolish, wreck, smash, dismantle, lay in ruins, beat down, blow down; quash, quell, squash, suppress, put an end to, snuff out, stamp out, SI. rub out, finish, dispel, break up; uproot, root out, deracinate, Obs. over-runcate.
2. erase, efface, eradicate, wipe or blot out, sponge out, render imperceptible or illegible or undeciperable; delete, cancel, kill, expunge, blue-pencil; omit, strike out, write off, rule out.

obliteration, n. 1. extermination, annihilation, dis-creation, dissolution, elimination, extirpation, total or utter destruction, decimation, liquidation, undoing, end, SI. curtains, abolition, extinguishment; razing, gutting, leveling, blasting, smashing, dismantling; ravagement, devastation, ruination, desolation, demolition, wreckage.
2. erasure, effacement, eradication, wiping or blotting or sponging out, ruling out, deletion, cancellation, oblivion, n. 1. obscurity, darkness, blankness; extinction, obsolescence, nowhereness, never-never land; nothingness, nothing, Fr. neant, nihility; nonexistence, inexistence, immateriality, nonsubsistence; abeyance, Inf. shelf, suspension, dormancy.