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adj. - Having an oblique or slanted direction.

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Usage examples (17)
  • A wall of turbid water, aslope to the wide sky's wonder
  • Already the sun is aslope, high still in a pale hot sky, 5
  • Here on the bar of the sand-bank, steep yet aslope to the gleaming
  • Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind.
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