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slant

noun as in angle, slope

verb as in angle off, slope

verb as in change to suit; distort

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Example Sentences

Meanwhile, big dollar advertising campaigns have taken an explicit rainbow-hued slant.

Owen sees the writing of his book—telling the truth slant—as a way of closing the circle on his own losses.

Emily Dickinson famously wrote, “Tell the truth but tell it slant.”

And while they may have an ideological slant, they are not wedded to it.

American literature seems to want for authors of a Republican slant.

He had the innate slant of mind that properly belongs to a moderator of mass meetings called to aggravate a crisis.

The rear of him had not sunk so far, so he was on a slant which made it all the more difficult for him to lift himself.

A rise of land showed gaunt and black, and the pilot was guiding the ship in a long slant upon it.

The abrupt slant of the hill gives the building an additional story on the south side.

The last has the true slant for activity and strength, in which it excels all other breeds of equal weight.

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On this page you'll find 198 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slant, such as: leaning, camber, cant, declination, diagonal, and grade.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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