slant

slant

verb

Definition of SLANT

1

to change so much as to create a wrong impression or alter the meaning of <reporters who slant the truth in order to push a political agenda>

Synonyms bend, color, cook, distort, falsify, fudge, misinterpret, misrelate, misrepresent, misstate, pervert, slant, twist, warp

Related Words misdescribe, misspeak, mistranslate; belie, camouflage, disguise, dissemble, gloss (over), mask, veil, whitewash; bowdlerize, censor; complicate, confound, confuse, mistake, mix (up); mystify, obscure; equivocate, fib, lie, palter, prevaricate

Near Antonyms clarify, clear (up), explain, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, spell out; decipher

2

to set or cause to be at an angle <a ramp slanted at a 20 degree angle>

Synonyms angle, cant, cock, heel, incline, list, pitch, slant, slope, tilt, tip

Related Words bank; bend, deviate, swerve, veer; decline, descend, recline, retreat

Near Antonyms even, flatten, level, straighten