sideways

Adjective

• (of movement) at an angle

Adverb

• to, toward or at one side
  • darting eyes looking sidelong out of a wizened face
    

• toward one side
  • the car slipped sideways into the ditch
    
  • leaning sideways
    
  • a figure moving sidewise in the shadows
    

• from the side; obliquely
  • a picture lit sideways
    
  • scenes viewed sidewise
    

• with one side forward or to the front
  • turned sideways to show the profile
    
  • crabs seeming to walk sidewise
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  crabwise , sidelong , obliquely , sideway , sidewise