Definition of "glancing" []

• Oblique in direction; slanting or deflected: struck him a glancing blow. (adjective)
• Not straightforward; indirect: made glancing allusions to the scandal. (adjective)

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• "But in glancing at each of these (and more) it was easy for me to see whether the phrase “right wing boogeyman” referred to a right winger who was acting as a boogeyman, or someone who was acting as a boogeyman to the right wing."
• "I see I have been lax in glancing through the ranks."
• "One of the first things we notice in glancing at the portrait is the peculiar angle at which the"