crabwise

adj

1. (not-comparable)In the manner of a crab; sideways.
2. (figuratively, not-comparable)Incidental.

   “Quite apart from their crabwise and often reluctant embrace of religious toleration for a wide variety of religious dissidence, both countries achieved a wider distribution of prosperity than any other part of seventeenth-century Europe.”

adv

1. (not-comparable)In the manner of a crab; sideways.