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Definition of Slanty
1. deviating from the horizontal or vertical [adj] : SLANTLY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slanty
Literary usage of Slanty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1868)
"... indefatigable exertions of Captain Maitland in judiciously stationing the
cruizers under his command, which consisted of the Myrmidon, slanty, Cyrus, ..."
2. Greatest Short Stories (1915)
"Laughter as sharp as a knife, long and pitiful wailing; strange weird dances in
the purplish light of torches, their slanty, fiery tongues wrapped in the ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Ruled at Nisi Prius, in the Courts of King's by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Isaac 'Espinasse, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas (1801)
"slanty, 8 T. fe. 578. READ against PASSER. Tuesday, Dec. 2d. 'T'HIS was an issue
directed out of the Court of Chancery. The register The question for the ..."
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