slantingly

adv

1. In a slanting orientation; aslant.

   “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.”