Synonyms:
aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping
Meaning: having an oblique or slanted direction
Usage examples
One side of the rock was broken by a slanting gully.
Brion looked unhappily at the slanting and broken ramp, then cupped his hands and shouted loudly.
A slanting cleft in the stone could be climbed easily, but it seemed incredible that this might be the only entrance.
Later, his smile became crooked, the left side of his mouth slanting upward, and Quicksand got ready to stand from under.
The next moment she had scrambled over the sill, pulled the window down after her, and walked down the slanting board to the ground.
Up into the air shot the nose of the Red Cloud as the wind struck the slanting surface of the planes, and, a moment later it was sailing high above the heads of the throng.
There are long ropes and short ropes, upright and slanting, straight and bent, taut and slack, all criss-cross and a-tangle, to the height of three feet or so in inextricable disorder.
It consisted of the plank platform on which he stood, a wooden house, half painted, with a dirty piazza (unroofed) in front, and a sign board hung on a slanting pole--bearing the legend, "Hotel.