ˈslenting, ppl. a.
Also 7 slinting.
[f. slent v.1]
Oblique, indirect.
| 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. v. 66 Generally writing ingeniously, using sometimes slenting, seldome down-right railing. a 1661 ― Worthies, London ii. (1662) 217 This if literally true, deserved a down-right (and not only so slenting a) mention. 1662 W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. xix. xi. §2 (1669) 510/1 So by a slinting blow they hit God himself in contemning his Ambassador. |