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Not on the level?
Answer for the clue "Not on the level? ", 6 letters:
aslant
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Word definitions for aslant in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., o-slant , literally "on slant," from on + slant (v.). As a preposition from c.1600.
Usage examples of aslant.
This was Pere Beret, grizzly, short, compact, his face deeply lined, his mouth decidedly aslant on account of some lost teeth, and his eyes set deep under gray, shaggy brows.
She glared at him with her hands on her hips, her mouth set irritably aslant upward, her eyebrows gathered into a dark knot over her nose.
The moon hanging aslant against the blue peeped forth just in time to show him a flying figure which, even while he looked, reached the postern, opened it and slipped through.
By instinct Karl stepped sideways into the dimension from which Kristian had first appeared, the world aslant that only vampires could enter, which they called the Crystal Ring.
Vampires can move into another dimension, a world aslant from this, which we call the Crystal Ring.
Bees come upon the light wind, gliding with it, but with their bodies aslant across the line of current.
It is thrown aslant the stream, and not straight across it, and has a long brick approach.
The King was no longer expected to see nightfall and had been carried to his throne and tied in place there by servants, sitting with grim determination on his face and his crown slipping aslant upon his brow.
As ever, it stirred his heart to see it there, morning light aslant through all the intricacy of its secondary construction.
As she sized me up, her eyes narrowing, the cigarette hung aslant from her mouth.
The backwash of the breaking waves was a broad white road, cut aslant by the hull of the fishing boat.
She would be swinging in the midst of them, with one tiny black maiden on the seat beside her, and one little black man with high stomach and shaven poll holding on to the rope behind her, and another mighty Moor in a diminutive white jellab pushing at their feet in front, and all laughing together, or the children singing as the swing rose, and she herself listening with head aslant and all her fair hair rip-rip-rippling down her back and over her neck, and her smiling white face resting on her shoulder.
He withdrew it from his hatband, where he always wore it aslant like a feather.
Autarch was to my left, hanging limp between two evzones who had slung their long-barreled jezails aslant their backs.
They carried lancegays not much longer than the height of a man, many of them holding them aslant their saddle-bows.