catercorner

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catercorner - slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line; "set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot"

catacorner, cata-cornered, cater-cornered, catty-corner, catty-cornered, kitty-corner, kitty-cornered

oblique - slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; "the oblique rays of the winter sun"; "acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles"; "the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base"

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The pharmacy counter, in a catercorner position, is nearby the intimacy section but does not face obtrusively out onto the display.

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Catercorner to Star headquarters, the 430,000-square-foot plant will occupy two city blocks and the portion of 16th Street that once ran between them.

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The work was also catercorner to Egyptian Landscape, 1964, which employed pronounced white grid margins similar to those in the "Color Chart" (although these were strikingly asymmetrical in comparison) yet used them to frame photorealist pictures.