aslant

[uh-slant, uh-slahnt]

adverb

1. at a slant; slantingly; obliquely.

adjective

1. slanting or on a slant; oblique.

preposition

1. slantingly across; athwart.

aslant

/ əˈslɑːnt /

adverb

1. at a slant

preposition

1. at a slant across or athwart

Word History and Origins

Origin of aslant¹

1250–1300; Middle English on slont, on slent on slope, at a slant

Example Sentences

A pair of rectangular glasses sit somewhat aslant on his round face, which after weeks of frantic travel and fitful sleep showed signs of enervation.

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“The Peanuts Papers” hammers home that fully appreciating Charles M. Schulz’s juggernaut, which ran in newspapers from 1950 to 2000, requires looking aslant at its genre.

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Around midafternoon I stopped to eat in La Reforma, a small town aslant on the mountainside, scattered on both sides of the road, one building signposted Restaurante Rosa.

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The lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming ending of Quichotte, that “sane man,” is the aslant answer to the question of what is real and what is unreal.

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My father’s exuberant, expansive mind; the comic, necessary, generous-hearted compromises of my parents’ marriage; the origins of my own vocation—they are all there in the Stack, aslant among the books, those other bindings.

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