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canted

[ UK /kˈɑːntɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal
    the leaning tower of Pisa
    the headstones were tilted

How To Use canted In A Sentence

  • This meant that events presumably of interest mainly to Poles - such as the 1944 Rising - would often be scanted by the media.
  • Now a common-place person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the Doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. Mr. Midshipman Easy
  • The liberty of the citizen, and false imprisonment were discanted on in a loud and moving manner. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In Engla
  • He then decanted the pulpy slurry into an Erlenmeyer flask set atop an electric hot plate. Hipster Moonshine
  • Pierced by curves and angles of thin metal, the precarious, canted structure is poised on elegant little wheels. The Artist in All His Dimensions
  • Richly scanted dark berry and plum aroma with complex fruitcake , richness and resonantly depth.
  • On Thursday, salvors started moving the marine gas oil into containers on the ship, then airlifting these by helicopter to shore, where it is decanted into a big roadside tanker.
  • He often recanted, and the recantation was a thousand times worse than the thing recanted. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
  • Our whims and caprices are discanted on with apparent earnestness of truth, and seeming sincerity of conviction. The Drama
  • He sat back in the chair, leaned an elbow on the table, and canted his head to rest in that hand.
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