All 3 Uses

askew
in
Misery, by Stephen King
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As usual, her mobcap was askew and she smelled of the snuff she still firmly believed, after all these years, to be a secret vice.†
Chpt 2

askew = not straight; or not right
This dragged his left leg slightly askew, and the bolt of pain in his crushed knee was enough to wake him up.†
Chpt 2 *
He wore an old smoking jacket with the belt askew, an open-throated white shirt, and a pair of rough serge pants that would have looked more at home upon the legs of a itinerant gardener than upon those of the richest man in Little Dunthorpe.†
Chpt 2

Definitions:

(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)
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.