Slanted

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slant \Slant\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Slanted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Slanting}.] [OE. slenten to slope, slide; cf. Sw. slinta to
     slide.]
     To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie
     obliquely; to slope.
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           On the side of younder slanting hill.    --Dodsley.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slanted
       adj 1: having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: {aslant}, {aslope},
               {diagonal}, {slanting}, {sloped}, {sloping}]
       2: favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account
          of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the
          defendant" [syn: {biased}, {colored}, {coloured}, {one-sided}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "slanted":
     aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, canting,
     careening, cooked, doctored, garbled, inclinational, inclinatory,
     inclined, inclining, leaning, listing, misquoted, misrepresented,
     out of plumb, out of square, perverted, pitched, raking, recumbent,
     shelving, shelvy, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanting, slantways,
     slantwise, sloped, sloping, strained, tilted, tilting, tipped,
     tipping, tipsy, tortured, twisted