Noun : the cant of the fashion industry. From Dictionary.com.
What is the reason for the askew or 'canted' framing in this clip?. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Each wing ended in an upright, inward-canted winglet. From Wordnik.com. [Typhoon Season]
Long canines, canted inward, and flat square incisors. From Wordnik.com. [Killing Floor]
= -- These are on the south side in the canted bay of the apse. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference
When I passed Felicia she canted her head to one side and winked. From Wordnik.com. [To Be A Child (Part I of III)] Reference
Her eye-glasses were canted over the top angle of her enormous nose. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
Is this race over in your somewhat canted view of politics right now?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2007] Reference
The Dolphin was still canted nose downward at an angle of about 25°. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Station Zebra]
We both turned then, and peered down into the mist and canted forests. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
She lay like a broken doll, her neck canted at an odd angle to her body. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
The ink's shade shifted and the angle of the letters grew less canted. From Wordnik.com. [Caitlin in the Y2K Museum] Reference
She canted her head and a dark braid fell against her chiseled cheekbone. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
I was all the way over where the foundations canted down toward the water. From Wordnik.com. [Persuader]
His head was cradled on his arms and canted sideways at a characteristic angle. From Wordnik.com. [The Hard Way]
It was lined with stone walls and canted towards the valley where Tundergarth rested. From Wordnik.com. [On Tundergarth Farm] Reference
He stood very erect, but his chin was drawn in a little, and his head canted forward. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference
The steep walls of the maelstrom canted before me, threatening to pitch me into its maw. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
In abundant instances, the sins changed places, -- Cavaliers canted, and Puritans plundered. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference
All I could see was the steeply canted slate roofs of the turrets, bathed in the pinkish glow. From Wordnik.com. [There's Something In A Sunday]
He canted closer to be heard over the plane's roar, the privacy curtain swaying closed behind him. From Wordnik.com. [Strategic Engagement]
A lurch of the boat canted me and I threw out my left hand to prevent myself from diving overboard. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
It canted to one side to head off the struggling plane that could never escape, did not try to escape. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
Climate controls are a bit low and canted backward, making me study them more than I should have to. "". From Wordnik.com. [From the logbook: Toyota Yaris] Reference
The Sea Spell had driven so hard and fast upon the shoal that she canted neither to port, or starboard. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Kerr presented his back, and with his head a little canted forward seemed to listen, absorbed in his companion. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
"There's not enough telescope range on the steering wheel, and it's slightly canted toward the driver on the right.". From Wordnik.com. [From the logbook: Saab 9-5] Reference
Luckily the awning was canted towards them, or they would have shot several of us, as it had seven shots through it. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
He put slings under the arms of two men and let them down the canted side of the craft, on either side of the great gap. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
He had a vivid mental picture of the rocket shape, its once silvery sides dulled by exposure, canted crookedly amid trees. From Wordnik.com. [Star Hunter] Reference
I'd been following a line of high-voltage towers all canted over at the same gentlemanly tipsy angle by an old blast from the Last War. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference
Next in age is the "canted-corner case," a most odious abomination beloved of the amateur; the shape of the ground plan being as Fig. 38. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
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