slantwise

adj

1. (not-comparable)Diagonal, in a direction or orientation between cardinal axes

   “I can see it all now,—the slantwise rain / Of light through the leaves, / The sundown's blaze on her window-pane, / The bloom of her roses under the eaves.”

adv

1. Diagonally, in a direction or orientation between cardinal axes

   “[…] he had received a cut slantwise along one temple and cheek, leaving a long scar like a streak of dawn's light falling athwart the dark visage.”

   “Slantwise, a salamander-shaped sea came at them, growing.”

   “Ms. Davis — who at different points in the set called to mind Andrew Hill, Cecil Taylor and Paul Bley, without resorting to mimicry — often led this charge, starting out with a blank canvas and creeping slantwise into a repeatable motif.”