upslanting

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They may include a single transverse palmar crease (a single instead of a double crease across one or both palms, also called the Simian crease), an almond shape to the eyes caused by an epicanthic fold of the eyelid, upslanting palpebral fissures, shorter limbs, poor muscle tone, a larger than normal space between the big and second toes, and protruding tongue.

EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sickest tongue I have ever seen 2008
She was small and dark-haired, with the same upslanting eyes as the mother.

Dreamfall Vinge, Joan D. 1996
Her gray, upslanting eyes were looking straight into mine.

Catspaw Vinge, Joan D. 1988
He looked about eleven, with the same shining black hair and gray, upslanting eyes.?

Catspaw Vinge, Joan D. 1988
It was a cress a crescent a cross and an unequal scream, it was upslanting, it was radiant and reasonable with little ins and red.

Food 1914
It was a cress a crescent a cross and an unequal scream, it was upslanting, it was radiant and reasonable with little ins and red.

Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms Gertrude Stein 1910
Larvae have modest, upslanting mouths, for example, very different from adult female whalefishes 'huge, low-slung gapes.

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