sidelong vs sideward

sidelong

adv

  • Towards the side; sideways. 

  • obliquely 

adj

  • Slanting or sloping; oblique. 

  • Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward. 

  • Directed to the side; sideways. 

  • Along the side of something. 

sideward

adv

  • Toward a side. 

adj

  • Toward a side. 

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