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Definitions
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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