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View definitions for slanting

slanting

adjective as in inclining

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The silverback pushes past the teen, rolling him down a slanting hill.

“The news is slanting in different directions,” Tom complains as he and Vickie hunker down in a bar.

What stands out is a positive willpower and drive seen in the strong, upward-slanting ‘t’ bars (as in “pattern”).

At another, slanting morning light indicates an a.m. moment.

Hilda took the letter with apprehension, as she recognized the down-slanting calligraphy of Sarah Gailey.

With a characteristic peculiar slanting motion Edwin nodded.

Then came the end: the Titanic, with a low long slanting dive went down and with her Thomas Andrews.

Unfortunately a slanting groove has been cut through the upper mouldings of it.

Holding it with the light slanting over it, he peered inside, but found no inscription.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slanting, such as: bent, sloping, tilting, aslant, aslope, and oblique.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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