Slanting

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
slanting
    adj 1: having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: {aslant},
           {aslope}, {diagonal}, {slanted}, {slanting}, {sloped},
           {sloping}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slant \Slant\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slanted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Slanting}.] [OE. slenten to slope, slide; cf. Sw. slinta to
   slide.]
   To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie
   obliquely; to slope.
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         On the side of younder slanting hill.    --Dodsley.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slanting \Slant"ing\, a.
   Oblique; sloping. -- {Slant"ing*ly}, adv.
   [1913 Webster] Slantwise
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "slanting":
      abstractionism, aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias,
      biased, canting, careening, coloring, corruption, deformation,
      distortion, exaggeration, expressionism, false coloring,
      falsification, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy, inclinational,
      inclinatory, inclined, inclining, injustice, leaning, listing,
      litotes, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdirection, misdrawing,
      misinterpretation, mispainting, misquotation, misreport,
      misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, misuse, nonrealism,
      out of plumb, out of square, overdrawing, overstatement,
      perversion, pitched, raking, recumbent, shelving, shelvy, sideling,
      sidelong, slant, slanted, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping,
      straining, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, torturing,
      twisting, understatement

    

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