slantingly

English

Etymology

slanting + -ly

Adverb

slantingly (comparative more slantingly, superlative most slantingly)

  1. In a slanting orientation; aslant.
    • 1850, Ida Pfeiffer, A Woman's Journey Round the World:
      In consequence of this I could only manage to observe that the leaves of the plant are thrown for a few seconds into boiling water, and then placed in flat iron pans, fixed slantingly in stone-work, where they are slightly roasted by a gentle heat, during which process they are continually stirred by hand.
    • 1895, Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta:
      As the clerk spoke he looked slantingly on the page, as a person might do to discover if some writing were dry.
    • 1905, Meredith Nicholson, The House of a Thousand Candles:
      The hammer-handle had struck slantingly across my forehead, and my head ached from the blow.
    • 1913, Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence:
      It was afternoon, and the sun shone slantingly on the waters of the river, above which on the hills amid trees and flowering gardens stood the house of Captain Andrew Brown.
    • 1953, Murray Leinster, Space Tug:
      The glaring sunshine which at its take-off had shone squarely in its bow-ports, now poured down slantingly from behind.
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