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glancing

adjective

glanc·​ing ˈglan(t)-siŋ How to pronounce glancing (audio)
1
: hitting so as to glance off
a glancing blow
2
: incidental, indirect
made glancing allusions to her past
glancingly adverb

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web One of the victims suffered a serious injury to the forearm and the second a more glancing bite to the leg, police told media outlets. Antonio Planas, NBC News, 19 Aug. 2022 Both people were attacked in Myrtle Beach on Monday with one suffering a serious injury to the forearm and the second a more glancing bite to the leg, police told media outlets. CBS News, 19 Aug. 2022 In a glancing acknowledgment of their shortcomings, NHTSA in 2015 issued guidelines on infotainment systems that recommend they be designed so a driver’s attention is not distracted for more than two seconds out of six. Russ Mitchellstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2022 Some threads, like gay band members coming to terms with their sexuality in an environment built to exploit it, require more nuance than their glancing mentions can afford. Caroline Framke, Variety, 21 June 2022 With a gun slung across his chest, the man held the gloved hand of a small boy, who gave him a shy and glancing smile. Francesca Ebel, ajc, 3 Mar. 2022 The book too has been radically overhauled: Kushner set aside much of Laurents’s script to rework motivations, reimagine backstory, and revisit the original’s glancing and stereotypical approach to its Puerto Rican characters. Jackson Mchenry, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2021 McClure has a different, more glancing touch, though deft as a diamond cutter. Helen Shaw, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2021 Belfast’s drama is a little more glancing, its childhood antics a little more cartoonish. David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

see glance entry 1

First Known Use

circa 1541, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of glancing was circa 1541

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