obscure vs sidelong

obscure

adj
  • Hidden, out of sight or inconspicuous. 

  • Dark, faint or indistinct. 

  • Difficult to understand. 

  • Not well-known. 

  • Unknown or uncertain; unclear. 

verb
  • To hide, put out of sight etc. 

  • To render obscure; to darken; to make dim; to keep in the dark; to hide; to make less visible, intelligible, legible, glorious, beautiful, or illustrious. 

sidelong

adj
  • Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward. 

  • Slanting or sloping; oblique. 

  • Directed to the side; sideways. 

  • Along the side of something. 

adv
  • obliquely 

  • Towards the side; sideways. 

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