All 4 Uses of
askew
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- A frowsy whore with black straw sailor hat askew came glazily in the day along the quay towards Mr Bloom.†
Chpt 11
- He heaves his booty, tugs askew his peaked cap and hobbles off mutely.†
Chpt 15
- VIRAG: (Head askew, arches his back and hunched wingshoulders, peers at the moth out of blear bulged eyes, points a horning claw and cries) Who's moth moth?†
Chpt 15 *
- The face of a streetwalker glazed and haggard under a black straw hat peered askew round the door of the shelter palpably reconnoitring on her own with the object of bringing more grist to her mill.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(askew) not straight (not in proper alignment)
or:
(when used figuratively) not right, or not as planned -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, askew is used in the idiom, looked at me askew. It means looked at in a puzzled manner. You could think of it as someone tilting their head to see the person from a different angle.
Rarely, Askew can also refer to someone's first name.