Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Obliquely; in an inclined direction; slopingly; slantingly.
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Examples
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Then I straightway did espy, with my slantly-sloping eye,
The Bon Gaultier Ballads Theodore Martin 1862
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With slantly-churning jaws and swallows down. "] [Footnote 38: The deities of Olympus, being immortal, have no need of strenuous haste.
Poets of the South 1891
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