inflected vs sidelong

inflected

adj
  • bent or curved inward or downward 

  • Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word). 

  • Having inflected word forms; fusional. 

  • Deviating from a straight line. 

sidelong

adj
  • Slanting or sloping; oblique. 

  • Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward. 

  • Directed to the side; sideways. 

  • Along the side of something. 

adv
  • obliquely 

  • Towards the side; sideways. 

How often have the words inflected and sidelong occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )