1. the quality or state of being oblique; deviation from moral rectitude or sound thinking
Usage: formal
2. the quality of being slanted or at an angle; lack of perpendicularity or parallelism
Usage: technical

Examples

• The politician’s obliquities made it difficult to understand his true position.
• Her speech was full of obliquities that confused the audience.
• The architect had to account for the obliquities in the building’s foundation.
• The moral obliquities of the character were revealed gradually throughout the novel.
• Engineers measured the obliquities of the tower after the earthquake.
• His obliquities in business dealings eventually caught up with him.