Syntactic function filled by a noun phrase in an oblique case other than the accusative or dative, or by a prepositional or adpositional phrase: Ger. Er klagte den Mann des Mordes an (gen.) ‘He accused the man of murder.’ Oblique objects...

Term for the genitive, dative, accusative and ablative cases which depend on the verb, as opposed to the casus rectus....

An oblique case (Latin: casus generalis) in linguistics is a noun case of synthetic languages that is used generally when a noun is the object of a sentence or a preposition. An oblique case can appear in any case relationship except the nominative case...