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- adjective informal
slanted
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her eyes look kind of slanty like women who've had facelifts.
Latest Articles 2010
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Her eyes look kind of slanty like women who've had facelifts.
Latest Articles 2010
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Ben Affleck paralyzed out of fear he might say the wrong thing, or Miley Cyrus seeming genuinely at ease and not the least bit tempted to distort her face into some kind of slanty-eyed Mongol mockery.
Gawker: Defamer 2009
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Yesterday we reported about how Miley Cyrus was causing yet another uproar, this time with an image of her pulling at her eyes in a "slanty" attempt to mock Asians.
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If the characters in Avatar would've had slanty eyes we probably wouldn't be having this discussion.
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So for example, it's not enough for a character to have darker skin or wear ethnic clothes, he or she has to have the slanty tiny eyes as well or maybe speak in Engrish instead.
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I remember a boy in grade school making slanty-eyed gestures at me, guffawing as he mimicked the way I pronounced 'restaurant' rest-OW-rant — I vowed at that moment to rid myself of my Chinese accent.
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Best of all, they completely avoided all the stereotypes for the characters - no slanty eyes, no funny accents.
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Inside the Mellwood Arts Center, the crowd was typical Maxim: busloads of tall, girls with their blonde hair fashioned in one of two ways: low-side ponytails or slanty bangs like Taylor Swift.
Big Hats and Bigger Parties Pia Catton 2011
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Whites aren't so bad -- what about the wholesale slaughter of black folk by the evil Mongoloid hordes with their Clovis points and mean-looking slanty eyes!
What the shit? -- A Bad Archaeology on TV Rant zhukora1 2009
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