The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - oblique adj.

1) slanting, slanted, sloping, aslant, inclined, diagonal, inclining, angled, angling, canted, canting, banked, banking, cambered, crooked, askew, divergent, diverging, tilted, atilt, tilting: The roof joins the wall at an oblique angle. 2) awry, devious, roundabout, indirect, circuitous, circumlocutionary, evasive, sly, sidelong, offhand, surreptitious, furtive, implied, clandestine, underhand(ed) , deceitful, devious, deceptive, false: She made some oblique comments about the candidate's wife.