Askew
adverb
Not in a straight or level position; crooked or tilted.
His glasses sat askew on his nose.
Often appears as...
- sit askew
- hang askew
adjective
Out of line, not straight.
The picture on the wall was askew.
Often appears as...
- picture is askew
- button askew
adverb
Not in a straight or level position; crooked or tilted.
His glasses sat askew on his nose.
Often appears as...
- sit askew
- hang askew
adjective
Out of line, not straight.
The picture on the wall was askew.
Often appears as...
- picture is askew
- button askew
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Misalignment
Use 'askew' to describe something that's physically not straight, often accidentally.
After the earthquake, every frame was askew.
Pro Tip 2/3Suggest Disarray
'Askew' often suggests a scene of disorder or chaos that's visually apparent.
The aftermath of the party left the room askew.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Tone
While 'askew' is appropriate in many contexts, it carries a casual, conversational tone.
I walked in to find the office askew, which was unusual.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Misalignment
Use 'askew' to describe something that's physically not straight, often accidentally.
After the earthquake, every frame was askew.
Pro Tip 2/3Suggest Disarray
'Askew' often suggests a scene of disorder or chaos that's visually apparent.
The aftermath of the party left the room askew.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Tone
While 'askew' is appropriate in many contexts, it carries a casual, conversational tone.
I walked in to find the office askew, which was unusual.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Misalignment
Use 'askew' to describe something that's physically not straight, often accidentally.
After the earthquake, every frame was askew.
Pro Tip 2/3Suggest Disarray
'Askew' often suggests a scene of disorder or chaos that's visually apparent.
The aftermath of the party left the room askew.
Pro Tip 3/3Casual Tone
While 'askew' is appropriate in many contexts, it carries a casual, conversational tone.
I walked in to find the office askew, which was unusual.
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Video examples
Marc Pachter: The art of...
but -- I speak of the life force -- her hair was askew. She wasn't about to make up for this occasion. And she was sitting there surrounded by books, and her most interesting possession she felt at that moment
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Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
through this process and you often find really but he scrappy bits of horn on female Thompson's gazelles the male still have really prominent very visible horns but the females often bent askew
Video examples
Marc Pachter: The art of...
but -- I speak of the life force -- her hair was askew. She wasn't about to make up for this occasion. And she was sitting there surrounded by books, and her most interesting possession she felt at that moment
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
through this process and you often find really but he scrappy bits of horn on female Thompson's gazelles the male still have really prominent very visible horns but the females often bent askew
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Quote examples
Reggie Watts
American Comedian
I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.
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Howard Gardner
American Psychologist
The accumulation and cross-generational transmission of wealth in the United States has gone way too far. When a young hedge-fund manager can take home a sum reminiscent of the gross national product of a small country, something is askew.
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David Bowie
English Musician
What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
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Robert Gottlieb
American Writer
You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.
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William Least Heat-Moon
American Writer
Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
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Jason Segel
American Actor
I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view.
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Daniel Bruhl
German Actor
I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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Demi Moore
Actress
There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.
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David Bowie
English Musician
If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.
Quote examples
Reggie Watts
American Comedian
I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world, but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.
Quote examples
Howard Gardner
American Psychologist
The accumulation and cross-generational transmission of wealth in the United States has gone way too far. When a young hedge-fund manager can take home a sum reminiscent of the gross national product of a small country, something is askew.
Quote examples
David Bowie
English Musician
What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That's what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
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Robert Gottlieb
American Writer
You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear.
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William Least Heat-Moon
American Writer
Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
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Jason Segel
American Actor
I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view.
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Daniel Bruhl
German Actor
I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
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Demi Moore
Actress
There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.
Quote examples
David Bowie
English Musician
If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.
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