Difference between Colored and Slanted

What is the difference between Colored and Slanted?

Colored as an adjective is having a particular color or kind of color. while Slanted as an adjective is placed at an angle, on a slant.

Colored

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Having a particular color or kind of color. Having prominent colors; colorful. Influenced pervasively but subtly. Of skin color other than the white, particularly black. Of neither black nor white skin color.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: (demeaning or potentially offensive) A colored person.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give something color.

Example sentence: Have the colored people done anything to justify the prejudice against them that does exist in the hearts of so many white persons and, generally, of one great political party in this country? Have they done anything to justify it? No, sir.

Slanted

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Placed at an angle, on a slant.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To lean, tilt or incline.

We hope you now know whether to use Colored or Slanted in your sentence.

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