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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb Slantwise.

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  • adverb at a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction

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Examples

  • "That's a bitch," Hervie said, making his odd slantways grin.

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • I mean it is told forwards and backwards, inwards and outwards, sideways and slantways.

    Archive 2004-04-01 John 2004

  • Here he confessed to a knife-like pain in his left side; the brunt of the blow, it seemed, had met him slantways between rib and hip.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • Kenny Bayst, according to my slantways look at Nancy's racecard, was riding a horse called Rudiments: number seven, owned by the Duke of Wessex, trained by Miss.

    Rat Race Francis, Dick 1970

  • A huge obstacle to the northwest, probably a buried clump of brush, had made the wind turn back upon itself, first downward, then, at the bottom of the pit, in a direction opposite to that of the main current above, and finally slantways upward again to the summit of the obstacle, where it rejoined the parent blow.

    Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove

  • And with my mind's eye I saw the dusky bird: shooting slantways upward in its low flight which ends in a nearly perpendicular slide down to within ten or twelve feet from the ground, the bird being closely followed by a second one pursuing.

    Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove

  • Round the spinney; slantways across a field; up and over a gate, the girl clinging to me like a leech; down a lane; up and over another gate; and then the girl's shaking right arm was thrust over my shoulder.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • So it jumped slantways across the soft, central cushion of the trail into the other track.

    Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove

  • It blew in slantways under the top, then described a curve upward, and downward again, as if it were going to settle on the right end of the back.

    Over Prairie Trails Frederick Philip Grove

  • It is a small figure perched slantways above a roundabout, an elegant, Victorian god with a Grecian name — Eros of Piccadilly Circus.

    Death of a Peer Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1940

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