Wasn't quite a ringer

• Pressured, with "on"
• Listed at sea
• Wasn't upstanding
• Tilted
• Wasn't erect (6)
• Gravitated (towards)
• Wasn't straight
• Was tilted, like a certain tower in Pisa
• Depended (on)

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: lean )