Slant

This newspaper has no political slant.

In desktop publishing, some software will allow a user to skew a word or phrase in order to slant the letters by 10 or 12 degrees from the vertical, while preserving the baseline.

Run a slant route to the 30-yard line.

Writing in the Astrophysical Journal, researchers from the California Institute of Technology say the hypothetical massive planet at the edge of the solar system could be the reason the planets orbit at a six-degree slant relative to the sun.

The paper's editorial staff traditionally has had a conservative slant.

Sometimes there was only the width of the road between the imposing precipices on the right and the clear cool water on the left with its shoals of uncatchable fish skimming about through the bars of sun and shadow; and sometimes, in place of the precipices, the grassy land stretched away, in an apparently endless upward slant, and was dotted everywhere with snug little chalets, the peculiarly captivating cottage of Switzerland.

The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level.

Initial inquiries among professional typists uncover names like slant, slant line, slash, and slash mark. Examination of typing instruction manuals discloses additional names such as diagonal and diagonal mark, and other sources provide the designation oblique.

It was a well written article, but it had a bit of a leftist slant.

All batters looked alike to him—I don't believe he ever took a slant at the averages;