glancing
Making superficial, obtuse contact with something.
Adjective
- Making superficial, obtuse contact with something.
- His fist caught a glancing blow to my jaw.
- She looked with a grudging eye on this waste of life and beauty—there was none for him; and the sight of the coffin, with its deep black pall borne slowly along the glancing path, was a contrast of unutterable misery....
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Noun
- A sideways look; a glance.
- No doubt, sometimes there are comprehensive glancings at, and interminglings of different future eras of prophecy. - 1856, David Brown, Christ's second coming: will it be pre-millennial?:
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Verb
- present participle and gerund of glance