slantingly

In a slanting orientation; aslant.

Adverb

  1. In a slanting orientation; aslant.
    • 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...
    • As the clerk spoke he looked slantingly on the page, as a person might do to discover if some writing were dry. - 1895, Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta:
    • The hammer-handle had struck slantingly across my forehead, and my head ached from the blow. - 1905, Meredith Nicholson, The House of a Thousand Candles:

Origin

From slanting + -ly.

Forms

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