Slanted means tilted or angled rather than straight up and down or perfectly level. A slanted roof on a house lets rain and snow slide off instead of pooling on top. When you write in italics, the letters are slanted to the right. If you set a book on a tilted surface, it rests at a slant.

The word also describes information or opinions presented in a biased way. When a news report is slanted, it presents facts from only one point of view, leaving out information that might lead to a different conclusion. If someone writes a slanted review of a restaurant, they might mention only the bad parts while ignoring the good ones (or vice versa).

You can recognize slanted information by asking what's been left out. Does the account tell the whole story, or just the parts that support one side? A fair report on a school debate would explain both teams' arguments clearly. A slanted version might make one side sound foolish while making the other sound brilliant. Slant can work as a verb too: to slant something means to angle it physically or to present it in a biased way.