skewed

3 definitions found

skewed - 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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skewed - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  skewed
      adj 1: having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the
             picture was skew" [syn: skew, skewed]

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