[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sideways \side"ways`\, adv.
   toward the side; sidewise.
   1913 webster

         a second refraction made sideways.       --sir i.
                                                  newton.
   1913 webster

         his beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . .
         shot sideways, like a swallow's wings.   --longfellow.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

sideways
     adj : of movement at an angle syn: crabwise
     adv 1: with one side forward or to the front; "turned sideways to
            show the profile"; "crabs seeming to walk sidewise"
            syn: sideway, sidewise
     2: from the side; obliquely; "a picture lit sideways"; "scenes
        viewed sidewise" syn: sideway, sidewise
     3: toward one side; "the car slipped sideways into the ditch";
        "leaning sideways"; "a figure moving sidewise in the
        shadows" syn: sideway, sidewise
     4: to, toward or at one side; "darting eyes looking sidelong
        out of a wizened face" syn: sidelong, obliquely
see also:
crabwise sideway sidewise sidelong obliquely 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

78 moby thesaurus words for "sideways":
   across, across the grain, aside, askance, askant, aslant, aslope,
   asquint, at an angle, athwart, athwartships, breadthwise,
   broad side foremost, broadside, broadside on, broadways, broadwise,
   circuitously, contrariwise, contrawise, crabwise, crisscross,
   cross, cross-grained, crossway, crossways, crosswise, depthwise,
   deviately, deviously, digressively, divagationally, divergently,
   edgeway, edgeways, edgewise, excursively, flanking, glancing,
   glancingly, indirectly, laterad, lateral, laterally, lee, leeward,
   next-beside, obliquely, on its side, on one side, on the beam,
   overthwart, right and left, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward,
   sidewards, sideway, sidewise, sidling, skirting, slantingly,
   slantways, slantwise, slaunchways, through, thwart, thwartly,
   thwartways, to one side, transverse, transversely, traverse,
   weather, widthways, widthwise, windward

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