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[syn: skew, skewed]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Skew \Skew\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skewed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Skewing.]
1. To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move
obliquely.
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Child, you must walk straight, without skewing.
--L'Estrange.
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2. To start aside; to shy, as a horse. [Prov. Eng.]
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3. To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly
or suspiciously. --Beau. & Fl.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
skewed
adj 1: having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the
picture was skew" [syn: skew, skewed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "skewed":
agee, agee-jawed, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint,
asymmetric, awry, catawampous, catawamptious, cockeyed, crooked,
deflected, deflective, diffracted, diffractive, diffuse, diffused,
disparate, dispersed, disproportionate, distorted, flectional,
flexed, ill-matched, ill-sorted, inadequate, inflective,
insufficient, irregular, mismatched, odd, out of proportion,
refracted, refractile, refractive, refrangible, scattered, skew,
skew-jawed, slaunchways, squinting, unequal, uneven, wamper-jawed,
wry, yaw-ways