Definition of "slantingly" []

• At a slanting direction; aslant (adverb)

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• "The lane opened slantingly into the main road with a narrow opening, and had a delusive appearance of coming from the direction of London."
• "Something rushed up into the sky out of the greyness—rushed slantingly upward and very swiftly into the luminous clearness above the clouds in the western sky; something flat and broad, and very large, that swept round in a vast curve, grew smaller, sank slowly, and vanished again into the grey mystery of the night."
• "I turned and, running madly, made for the first group of trees, perhaps a hundred yards away; but I ran slantingly and stumbling, for I could not avert my face from these things."