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slantwise

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9 lettersPart of speech adverbSorted aeilnsstwStarts with SEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. at a slant; moving or directed in a slantwise position or direction

Word origin

From slant + -wise.

Used in a sentence

  • I can see it all now,—the slantwise rain / Of light through the leaves, / The sundown's blaze on her window-pane, / The bloom of her roses under the eaves.
  • […] he had received a cut slantwise along one temple and cheek, leaving a long scar like a streak of dawn's light falling athwart the dark visage.
  • Slantwise, a salamander-shaped sea came at them, growing.

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