Sample Sentences for
askew
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    I always see him without his jacket and with his tie yanked askew.
    askew = twisted to the side (not in proper alignment)
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    Everything looked amateurish. Even the signs were hung askew.
    askew = crooked (not in proper alignment)
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    "Why, it's potty wee Potter!" cackled Peeves, knocking Harry's glasses askew as he bounced past him.  (source)
    askew = not straight (not in proper alignment)
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    He saw a dark shape in the grass, crusted with blood, legs askew.  (source)
    askew = twisted in an unnatural manner
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    Her glasses are askew, and her eyes are empty of feeling.  (source)
    askew = not straight (not in proper alignment)
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    Suddenly the three of them were there, Mrs Whatsit with her pink stole askew; Mrs Who with her spectacles gleaming; and Mrs Which still little more than a shimmer.  (source)
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    We drove past the community church, the cross on top slightly askew.  (source)
    askew = not on straight
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    Some unknown force had wrenched and shattered these cubes so that they lay askew, often piled diminishingly on each other.  (source)
    askew = in disorder or disarray
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    Dodge flung out his fists and knocked Jack to the floor, left him splayed there with his wig askew, looking not at all like a person of high rank.  (source)
    askew = not on straight
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    She couldn't close her eyes without seeing her mother's body split in half, arms askew, and filled with tumors.  (source)
    askew = twisted in an unnatural position
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    A hundred yards ahead, the intersection was blocked by a couple of DCPJ police cars, parked askew, their purpose obvious.  (source)
    askew = irregularly (not straight in normal parking areas)
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    With frowsy hair, skirts askew and red hands, she talked loud while washing the floor with great swishes of water.  (source)
    askew = not straight
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    The hammer went askew, flattening the cylinder and sending attachments flying everywhere.†  (source)
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He looked at me askew.  (source)
askew = in a way that was odd (perhaps with the head tilted during an attempt to better understand)
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