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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)
  • Everything looked amateurish. Even the signs were hung askew.
    askew = crooked (not in proper alignment)
  • [T]he twins forced the sweater over his head, knocking his glasses askew.  (source)
    askew = [so they were] not on straight
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  • They look as windblown as I feel, the frenzy of adrenaline in their eyes and their hair askew.  (source)
    askew = disheveled or out of place
  • He saw a dark shape in the grass, crusted with blood, legs askew.  (source)
    askew = twisted in an unnatural manner
  • 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)
    askew = not straight (not in proper alignment)
  • The side mirror was tipped inward, brushed askew by branches, and Langdon saw the reflection of Sophie sitting quietly in the back seat.  (source)
    askew = crooked (not in proper alignment)
  • 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
  • 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
  • We drove past the community church, the cross on top slightly askew.  (source)
    askew = not on straight
  • 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
  • With frowsy hair, skirts askew and red hands, she talked loud while washing the floor with great swishes of water.  (source)
    askew = not straight
  • "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 looked at me askew.  (source)
    askew = in a way that was odd (perhaps with the head tilted during an attempt to better understand)
  • It was Grandpa who showed me Askew's place.  (source)
    Askew = untracked name in this novel
  • Her hat was askew, and she was red in the face and breathless.†  (source)
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  • At the bottom of the stairwell lay Doctor Papineau, feet askew on a high tread, head on the workshop floor, canted horribly.†  (source)
  • In the evening the murky shape of another coastal city, the cluster of tall buildings vaguely askew.†  (source)
  • The top of the t tips up, like an arm flung askew.†  (source)
  • I sat up and saw Amah was still asleep, lying askew on her sleeping mat.†  (source)
  • Harry fell backward, his glasses askew, clutching the cloak around him.†  (source)
  • The sarcophagus, like many in Rome, was askew with the wall, positioned awkwardly.†  (source)
  • The walkway had a faded green awning that covered it, and flower beds alongside with freshly planted pansies that looked muddied and slightly askew.†  (source)
  • The gallery was dim but mostly undamaged, with gauzy layers of smoke that thickened the higher they rose, but you could tell that a tremendous force of some sort had blown through the room just from the lights and the security cameras, which were knocked askew and facing the ceiling.†  (source)
  • As he tumbled down into the cold ashes, his lion helm askew, Shagga snapped the man's sword in two over a knee thick as a tree trunk, threw down the pieces, and lumbered into the common room.†  (source)
  • This dragged his left leg slightly askew, and the bolt of pain in his crushed knee was enough to wake him up.†  (source)
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