oblique intention
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Foresight that a consequence is virtually certain, though it was not the defendant's purpose.
The jury could infer oblique intention because death was a virtually certain result of the blow.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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