What's the difference between sideling and sidelong?

Sideling


Definition:

  • (adv.) Sidelong; on the side; laterally; also, obliquely; askew.
  • (a.) Inclining to one side; directed toward one side; sloping; inclined; as, sideling ground.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Despite the acknowledged importance of the VHW role, the question of whether the PHC model, with the VHW as the cornerstone can be effectively implemented without a "fundamental shift of wealth and power" (Sidel) continues to be asked.
  • (2) Tavon Austin initially stepped away from a punt that landed inside the St Louis 10-yard line, but after the lone Colts player in the vicinity over-ran the ball, Austin gobbled up the bouncing ball and ran it back 98 yards down the sideling for the touchdown.

Sidelong


Definition:

  • (adv.) Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
  • (adv.) On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong.
  • (a.) Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With such knowledge comes a predictable illusion of power, though this is all too regularly punctured by the indignity of being kicked out of shiny receptions and told to use an entrance more befitting of our lowly status – or of having my pronunciation of “Southwark Street” incorrectly corrected by a receptionist, who gives her colleague a sidelong smirk, commiserating over my supposed ignorance.
  • (2) For the record, British people have been doing this sort of thing naturally and without the aid of technology for centuries – that is, issuing a sidelong response during an awkward encounter, a protocol that escalates, in times of outright conflict, to the tangential screw-you.
  • (3) Fitzgerald gives me a sidelong glance and adds: "I have to stop being quoted there.
  • (4) A few months later, the Eid video’s sidelong references to fighting and jihad were placed in a much starker contrast, in a release that again focused on Isis’s substantial foreign fighter contingent.
  • (5) But apart from the odd sidelong glance, she didn't seem to make the connection.
  • (6) After a while I felt my mind wandering and enviously glanced sidelong at my fellow members, most of whom appeared positively riveted.
  • (7) RT @chucktodd : Only reason Senate GOP isn't meeting tonight to look over potential deal, not all senators are back in DC right now October 14, 2013 • Sidelong glances already are being thrown in the direction of House speaker John Boehner.
  • (8) Stares, sidelong looks, peeping out from behind columns, that kind of thing.