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Meaning slant meaning

What does slant mean?
Definitions in simple English

slant Noun

— A slant is the way a long thing is when one end is higher up and further along than the other end. The way a ramp is.

slant

— verb lie obliquely A scar slanted across his face — verb present with a bias He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders — noun a biased way of looking at or presenting something — noun (= pitch) degree of deviation from a horizontal plane the roof had a steep pitch — verb (= tilt) heel over The tower is tilting The ceiling is slanting — verb (= lean) to incline or bend from a vertical position She leaned over the banister

Synonyms slant synonyms

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slant English » English

slope incline lean tilt bend angle tip inclination pitch list decline careen skew bow twist stoop cant point of view obliquity gradient bias bevel tint splay slanting rake leaning incline toward hue dip declivity cant over bank weight wane viewpoint veer trend toward trend tendency solidus sloping slash sink shade recline obliqueness oblique nuance lurch

Topics slant topics

What do people use slant to talk about?
States Quality Shape Horizontal

Leaning, sloping

Conjugation slant conjugation

How do you conjugate slant?

slant · verb

Examples slant examples

How do I use slant in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This newspaper has no political slant.

Movie subtitles

You got the wrong slant, honey.
We've had a slant on you from the beginning.
Take a slant at the mirror in your washroom.
Let me explain why it's so important that I get the right slant on this.
You got the right slant.
I mean, go ahead and marry this slant-eyed runt if you want to.
Some have narrow slant eyes.
Their eyes, the way they slant, and the way they tip up at the side.
Now, you know I don't like any slant-eyes in a white man's saloon.
I may want to see you later, Major, for your own personal slant on all this.
He' s a slant-eye.
He's a slant-eye.
And I evened your cot legs so you won't have to sleep on a slant anymore.
It certainly gives you a new slant.
Maybe I got a new slant.
You got the entirely wrong slant on this. No, I haven't!
You got the wrong slant.
Guess I had the wrong slant.
I'll give them a slant on Newport home life that will stand their hair on end.
If you come up with the right slant, your problem can be solved.
So that's your slant.
You want to breed me a bunch of yellow-skinned, slant-eyed brats to leave the legacy of my whole life to?
You better go out and take a slant at the town.
But I've got a slant that might help you. -Yeah?
Well, you know, I got a different slant.
And there are plenty of slant-eyed girls.
I hated his shoulders, his greasy hair, the slant of his spine.
These enemy grunts are as hard as slant-eyed drill instructors.
But knowing Lester, he'll slant it to the left.
The rightward slant in your handwriting indicates a romantic nature.
Slant-eyed motherfucker!
Look at you, you're on a slant.
That's certainly a negative slant on their presence here, wouldn't you say?
Leezak, give me a five-yard slant.

News and current affairs

At the same time, the Middle East is awash with modern communications, much of it with an anti-Western slant.
In recent years, however, US politics has had a strong anti-immigration slant, and the issue played an important role in the Republican Party's presidential nomination battle in 2012.

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