Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Obliquely; in an inclined direction; slopingly; slantingly.

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Examples

  • Then I straightway did espy, with my slantly-sloping eye,

    The Bon Gaultier Ballads Theodore Martin 1862

  • 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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