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Synonyms for slantingly
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : slant, slahnt |
| Phonetic Transcription : slænt, slɑnt |
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Définition of slantingly
Origin :- 1520s, "to strike obliquely" (against something), alteration of slenten "slip sideways" (c.1300), perhaps via a Scandinavian source (cf. Swedish slinta "to slip," Norwegian slenta "to fall on one side"), from Proto-Germanic *slintanan. Intransitive sense of "to slope, to lie obliquely" is first recorded 1690s; transitive sense of "to give a sloping direction to" is from 1805. Related: Slanted; slanting. As an adverb from late 15c.; as an adjective from 1610s. Slant rhyme attested from 1944.
- As in sideways : adv to the edge, exteriority
- He raised the spear and plunged it slantingly down into the hideous body.
- Extract from : « The Raid on the Termites » by Paul Ernst
- They had to lift it slantingly as some baggage stood in the way.
- Extract from : « Journeys and Experiences in Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile » by Henry Stephens
- Great shafts of light dropped in slantingly between the trunks.
- Extract from : « Day and Night Stories » by Algernon Blackwood
- He was not aiming at them straight but slantingly toward the road, as if he would head them off.
- Extract from : « The Incendiary » by W. A. (William Augustine) Leahy
- Hold the point, not slantingly like a pencil, but as near as possible perpendicularly.
- Extract from : « A Treatise on Etching » by Maxime Lalanne
- He struck round the other side of the curtain and felt that the scourge met its mark, but slantingly and draggingly.
- Extract from : « The Unwilling Vestal » by Edward Lucas White
- Then he entered an opposite room—all were unlocked now—from which, slantingly through the deadlight, he saw lights.
- Extract from : « The Wreck of the Titan » by Morgan Robertson
- He jinked, wheeled from the direction which would have taken him slantingly towards the other rider, and charged the commandant.
- Extract from : « The Pursuit » by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile
- As the young moose sprang into the air, the claws caught him slantingly on the haunch.
- Extract from : « The Kindred of the Wild » by Charles G. D. Roberts
- Do not make his twig arms stand out straight at his sides; push them in slantingly so that he will hold them out in front.
- Extract from : « Mother Nature's Toy-Shop » by Lina Beard
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