slantendicular love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Oblique, not perpendicular; indirect.

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Examples

  • I put these thoughts to Lincoln, you know, after the war, and he sat back, cracking his knuckles and eyeing me slantendicular.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Once I made a half-hearted suggestion about bidding farewell to Blowitz, who expected me to get out at Vienna and might wonder where I'd got to; Willem gave me a slantendicular smile and said Kralta would send him a note.

    Watershed 2010

  • He watched me slantendicular and then put back his head.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • But I could see she was pleased, so I gave her a slantendicular look, and said, not even one? at which she blushed even pinker, and wriggled, and said, well, it wasn't her fault, was it, if some very valued and important clients insisted on the personal attention of Madame?

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • The mountain boys held on to each other laughing, and I wasn't any too pleased, but Carson gave me his slantendicular smile and shrugged.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • She gave that slantendicular smile that had been driving me wild for months.

    Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

  • Then she stepped back, giving me a playful push and another slantendicular smile, and without a word poured us two goblets of tej from a well-laden buffet at the wall.

    Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

  • Once I made a half-hearted suggestion about bidding farewell to Blowitz, who expected me to get out at Vienna and might wonder where I'd got to; Willem gave me a slantendicular smile and said Kralta would send him a note.

    Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

  • I put these thoughts to Lincoln, you know, after the war, and he sat back, cracking his knuckles and eyeing me slantendicular.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • I put these thoughts to Lincoln, you know, after the war, and he sat back, cracking his knuckles and eyeing me slantendicular.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

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  • Alos slanticular.

    March 31, 2010

  • "Slanticular" is not an attested spelling in the Oxford English Dictionary, which shows that this word has most often been spelled "slantindicular."

    -- The Orthoepist

    June 8, 2010