slantingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a slanting orientation; aslant.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "As the clerk spoke he looked slantingly on the page, as a person might do to discover if some writing were dry."
- "The hammer-handle had struck slantingly across my forehead, and my head ached from the blow."
- "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."
- "The glaring sunshine which at its take-off had shone squarely in its bow-ports, now poured down slantingly from behind."
Etymology
From slanting + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more slantingly (comparative)
most slantingly (superlative)