slant against

slant against (someone or something)

1. To lean against or angle into something. He slanted against the doorframe with his eyes narrowed and his arms crossed while I packed my things into a suitcase. The fence has gotten so weighed down with ivy that it has started slanting against the side of the house.
2. To hold, represent, or play into a bias against someone or something. While the newspaper typically slants against the politician, it has come out in favor of her new tax reform proposal. The group has always slanted against any form of governmental control or interference, promoting deregulation and state-level autonomy instead.
3. To write or present something in such a way as to form, represent, or play into a bias against someone or something. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "slant" and "against." Please try to keep your writing neutral—we don't want you slanting your articles against any politicians or political parties. Purporting itself to simply be presenting facts, it's pretty clear the director has slanted the documentary against the criminal justice system.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

slant something against someone or something

to bias something against someone or something; to twist information so it is against someone or something. The writer slanted the story against the innocent people of the town. The reporter slanted her story against one political party.
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slant against something

to rest obliquely against something. The bookcase slants against the wall, and it should be straight. The lumber was left slanted against the garage.
See also: slant
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • get up against
  • get up against (someone or something)
  • clash
  • clash against
  • clash against (someone or something)
  • against
  • against (someone or something)
  • hedge against
  • hedge against (something)
  • abut against
References in periodicals archive
Ejercito said he lamented the media slant against him over his graft charge, but he said he remains confident the case would be dismissed.
JV Ejercito blames rivals in firearms deal graft rap
The social slant against them notwithstanding, eunuchs and transsexuals are no longer confined to registering themselves only as ' male ( M)' or ' female ( F)' for voter ID cards, a crucial document of national identity.
Eunuchs can register as 'other' in electoral rolls
Beinin speaks of former Harvard president Lawrence Summers accusing faculty and students who questioned Israeli Middle East policy of anti-Semitism, and a New York Times editorial urging administrators at Columbia University to scrutinize curriculum and faculty after students complained of a slant against Jews.
Doumani, Beshara, ed. Academic Freedom after September 11
Everton made their dissatisfaction with Mourinho's personal slant against the player clear in their statement on Monday, which said: "To publicly question the integrity of a player of Andrew's professionalism and honesty is not only wholly unacceptable and quite possibly defamatory but also, in our opinion, highly damaging for both Club and player.
Football: Mourinho admits: Sorry, I was wrong; Chelsea manager apologises for slur against Johnson
That unmentioned detail is significant since the books and reports in which she detects a rigid ideological slant against China were written during the Clinton years, and include jacket blurbs from Democrats.
China hawk talk
Despite the continuing complaints about the media's mis- and disinformation headlines and exposes, often conveying a slant against dietary supplements and some "functional foods and beverages", too many companies choose to remain within the fencing of their own industry.
It's time to leave the closet...with pride: finding the right forum in which to present the science. (Proprietary Perspectives)
I lie across my bed on my stomach and peer out the window, watching the rain slant against the windowpane.
Shades of blue
Everton made their dissatisfaction with Mourinho's personal slant against the player clear in their statement on Monday, which said: "To publicly question the integrity of a player of Andrew's professionalismand honesty is not only wholly unacceptable and quite possibly defamatory but also, in our opinion, highly damaging for both club and player.
Football: MOURINHO: SORRY AJ; Jose retracts slur on Blues striker