Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a slanting or sloping manner or direction.
- Indirectly.
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- adverb at a slanting direction;
aslant
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with a slant
Etymologies
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Examples
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Something rushed up into the sky out of the greyness—rushed slantingly upward and very swiftly into the luminous clearness above the clouds in the western sky; something flat and broad, and very large, that swept round in a vast curve, grew smaller, sank slowly, and vanished again into the grey mystery of the night.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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The lane opened slantingly into the main road with a narrow opening, and had a delusive appearance of coming from the direction of London.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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I turned and, running madly, made for the first group of trees, perhaps a hundred yards away; but I ran slantingly and stumbling, for I could not avert my face from these things.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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I could see the green effulgence of the Star-light shining in, slantingly.
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The lane opened slantingly into the main road with a narrow opening, and had a delusive appearance of coming from the direction of London.
The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 4 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2005
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Something rushed up into the sky out of the greyness — rushed slantingly upward and very swiftly into the luminous clearness above the clouds in the western sky; something flat and broad, and very large, that swept round in a vast curve, grew smaller, sank slowly, and vanished again into the grey mystery of the night.
The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006
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The lane opened slantingly into the main road with a narrow opening, and had a delusive appearance of coming from the direction of London.
The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006
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As the clerk spoke he looked slantingly on the page, as a person might do to discover if some writing were dry.
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I discovered that a concave speculum hung slantingly high over his head; a movement in this caught my attention sharply, and I looked up to see, distorted and made fantastic but bright and beautifully colored, the magnified, reflected, evasive rendering of
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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I turned and, running madly, made for the first group of trees, perhaps a hundred yards away; but I ran slantingly and stumbling, for I could not avert my face from these things.
The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006
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