Meaning

noun a biased way of looking at or presenting something

noun degree of deviation from a horizontal plane

verb lie obliquely

originLate Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectal slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.

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