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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Slant \Slant\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Slanted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slanting}.] [OE. slenten to slope, slide; cf. Sw. slinta to slide.] To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
On the side of younder slanting hill. --Dodsley.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Slanting \Slant"ing\, adjective Oblique; sloping. -- {Slant"ing*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
slanting
adjective: having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: {aslant}, {aslope}, {diagonal}, {slanted}, {sloped}, {sloping}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "slanting": abstractionism, aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, canting, careening, coloring, corruption, deformation, distortion, exaggeration, expressionism, false coloring, falsification, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, injustice, leaning, listing, litotes, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdirection, misdrawing, misinterpretation, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, misuse, nonrealism, out of plumb, out of square, overdrawing, overstatement, perversion, pitched, raking, recumbent, shelving, shelvy, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, straining, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, torturing, twisting, understatement
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