All 4 Uses of
askew
in
I Am the Cheese
- And I keep yelling to myself, It's all right, it's all right, but my words are lost on the wind and inside I am saying, The hell with this, if I get away from this dog, I'm going home, I'm taking the first bus back, the hell with Rutterburg, Vermont, the hell with everything ....The bike is in danger of toppling now as the dog continues to attack the front wheel and I realize with horror that this has been its intention from the beginning: to topple the bike, send it askew and have me crashing to the roadway, his victim.†
Chpt 7askew = not straight; or not right
- All my life, they've been lying to me ....T: And so, for the first time, you had actual and direct evidence that there was something wrong, that something was askew.†
Chpt 13 *
- I squint and see a bed, the mattress naked and askew.†
Chpt 29
- His words don't seem synchronized with his mouth, as if a soundtrack has gone askew.†
Chpt 29
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.