sidelong vs skirting

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. 

skirting

noun
  • The act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it. 

  • skirts collectively; material for skirts 

  • Skirting boards collectively. 

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