slant

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To give a direction other than perpendicular or horizontal to; make diagonal; cause to slope: She slants her letters from upper right to lower left.
2. v. To present so as to conform to a particular bias or appeal to a certain audience: The story was slanted in favor of the strikers.
3. v. To have or go in a direction other than perpendicular or horizontal; slope.
4. n. A line, plane, course, or direction that is other than perpendicular or horizontal; a slope.
5. n. A sloping thing or piece of ground.
6. n. Printing A virgule.
7. n. A personal point of view or opinion.
8. n. A bias.
9. n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or descent.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To lie obliquely to some line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; slope: as, a slanting roof.
2. To go or turn off at a small angle from some direct line; deviate: as, at this point the road slants off to the right. Specifically
3. To exaggerate; “draw the long bow”; fib.
4. To have a leaning; incline.
5. To give a sloping direction to; set or place at an angle to something else: as, slant the mirror a little more.
6. Sloping; oblique; inclined from a direct line or plane.
7. n. An oblique direction or plane; a slope.
8. n. An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.
9. n. A chance; an opportunity.

Wiktionary

1. n. A slope or incline.
2. n. A bias, tendency, or leaning; a perspective or angle.
3. n. pejorative, ethnic slur A person of Asian descent.
4. v. To lean, tilt or incline.
5. v. To bias or skew.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
2. v. To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction to.
3. n. A slanting direction or plane; a slope.
4. n. An oblique reflection or gibe; a sarcastic remark.
5. adj. Inclined from a direct line, whether horizontal or perpendicular; sloping; oblique.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a biased way of looking at or presenting something
2. n. degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
3. v. lie obliquely
4. v. present with a bias
5. v. to incline or bend from a vertical position
6. v. heel over