sidelong vs squinty

sidelong

adj

  • Directed to the side; sideways. 

  • Slanting or sloping; oblique. 

  • Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward. 

  • Along the side of something. 

adv

  • obliquely 

  • Towards the side; sideways. 

squinty

adj

  • sidelong 

  • Afflicted with a squint 

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