Straight
Straight adjective - Free from irregularities or digressions in course.
Usage example: in the wide, open spaces of the West some rural roads are incredibly straight
Zigzagging is an antonym for straight.
Zigzagging
Both words in one sentence
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Region Coding: Played straight with the Xbox 360 release of the game, but zigzagging with the PlayStation 3 release.
Source: Video Game / Army of Two - Especially the deal with Cesareas poem Sión, actually three different drawings of a straight line, a curved line and zigzagging line that Belano and Lima consider a great poem.
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His robot tank moves way too slow to really count as "dodging", and while we see him zigzagging to avoid Alexander's targeting cursor on Alexander's display screens, the next scene when he's actually being fired at he's running straight.
Source: Film / Robot Jox
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