English

Adverb

slantingly ‎(comparative more slantingly, superlative most slantingly)

1. at a slanting direction; aslant
   • 1850, Ida Pfeiffer, A Woman's Journey Round the World:

     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 slightly roasted by a gentle heat, during which process they are continually stirred by hand.

   • 1905, Meredith Nicholson, The House of a Thousand Candles:

     The hammer-handle had struck slantingly across my forehead, and my head ached from the blow.

   • 1913, Nephi Anderson, Story of Chester Lawrence:

     It was afternoon, and the sun shone slantingly on the waters of the river, above which on the hills amid trees and flowering gardens stood the house of Captain Andrew Brown.

   • 1953, Murray Leinster, Space Tug:

     The glaring sunshine which at its take-off had shone squarely in its bow-ports, now poured down slantingly from behind.

   • 1895, Thomas Hardy, The Hand of Ethelberta:

     As the clerk spoke he looked slantingly on the page, as a person might do to discover if some writing were dry.