canted

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Canted outward on a 10-degree angle, the exterior reflects the earth back onto itself.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2017

Canted camera angles out of “Caligari” and “Batman” and the odd fish-eye shot provide quick, familiar shortcuts to spookiness.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2016

A round tower is mentioned, called the "Canted Tower," with a staircase of one hundred and twenty-four steps.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 336, October 18, 1828 by Various

Canted suddenly, in this way, from the very top of Fortune's wheel to the very bottom; never to rise more;—and did not even die, at least not all die, for thirty or forty years after.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Carlyle, Thomas