The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word OBLIQUE which also is the latest solution we found used in Simon and Schuster in 2003.
Slightly slanted crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| OBLIQUE | 100 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Slightly slanted
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- oblique
- atilt
- roof
- tilt
- tipped
- bevel
- bezel
- cant
- italic
- louver
- herringbone
- barren
Crossword Answer definitions
OBLIQUE noun- An oblique line.
- (grammar) The oblique case.
- To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.
- To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
- To slant (text, etc.) at an angle.
- Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.
- Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.
- Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
- Of leaves, having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side lower than the other.
- Of branches or roots, growing at an angle that is neither vertical nor horizontal.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the oblique case (non-nominative).
- (grammar) Of speech or narration, indirect, employing the actual words of the speaker, but as related by a third person, having the first person in pronoun and verb converted into the third person, adverbs of present time into the past, etc.
- Employing oblique motion, motion or progression in which one part (voice) stays on the same note while another ascends or descends.
- A slashing action or motion, particularly:
- A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly:
- Something resembling such a mark, particularly:
- The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
- Slash fiction.
- A drink of something; a draft.
- A piss: an act of urination.
- A swampy area; a swamp.
- A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- The period of a transitory breeze.
- An interval of good weather.
- The loose part of a rope; slack.
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