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Askew   /əskjˈu/   Listen
Askew

adjective
1.
Turned or twisted toward one side.  Synonyms: awry, cockeyed, lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky.  "His wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"
adverb
1.
Turned or twisted to one side.  Synonyms: awry, skew-whiff.  "With his necktie twisted awry"





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"Askew" Quotes from Famous Books



... is that, there? A milestone? No, it is not a milestone. It is a head, a black head, tanned and polished. The mouth is all askew, and you can see something of the mustache bristling on each side—the great head of a carbonized cat. The corpse—it ...
— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse
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... were mounting the stairway. We passed under the arch—where a door, shattered and wrenched from its upper hinge, lay askew against the wall—and climbed to the platform. From this another flight of steps (but these were of worked granite) led straight as a ladder to a smaller platform at the foot of the keep; and high upon these stood my uncle Gervase directing ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
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... spinning, askew-axised thing we call a planet—(impertinently enough, since we are far more planetary ourselves). A round, rusty, rough little metallic ball—very hard to live upon; most of it much too hot or too cold: a couple of ...
— On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin
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... had stuck the pin into the candle he never shut the slide again; and though no wind blew, there was a light breath moving in the morning off the sea, that got inside the lanthorn and set the flame askew. And so the candle guttered down one side till but little tallow was left above the pin; for though the flame grew pale and paler to the view in the growing morning light, yet it burnt freely all the time. So at last there was left, as I judged, but a quarter of an hour to run before the pin ...
— Moonfleet • J. Meade Falkner
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... things are: yet many of these are askew: You are certainly I: but certainly I am ...
— The Heptalogia • Algernon Charles Swinburne
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