All askew synonyms
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A a adj askew
- crooked — If you describe something as crooked, especially something that is usually straight, you mean that it is bent or twisted.
- off-center — not centered; diverging from the exact center.
- awry — If something goes awry, it does not happen in the way it was planned.
- askance — with an oblique glance
- bent — Bent is the past tense and past participle of bend.
- cockeyed — If you say that an idea or scheme is cockeyed, you mean that you think it is very unlikely to succeed.
- curved — A curved object has the shape of a curve or has a smoothly bending surface.
- knotted — having knots; knotty.
- lopsided — heavier, larger, or more developed on one side than on the other; unevenly balanced; unsymmetrical.
- oblique — neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface; slanting; sloping.
- obliquely — in an oblique manner or direction.
- slanting — to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- twisted — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
- zigzag — a line, course, or progression characterized by sharp turns first to one side and then to the other.
- askant — askance
- aslant — at a slant
- buckled — Buckled shoes have buckles on them, either to fasten them or as decoration.
- catawampus — askew; awry
- crookedly — not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
- turned — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
adjective askew
- misaligned — improperly aligned.
- skewed — to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course.
- uneven — not level or flat; rough; rugged: The wheels bumped and jolted over the uneven surface.
- asymmetrical — Something that is asymmetrical has two sides or halves that are different in shape, size, or style.
- disorderly — characterized by disorder; irregular; untidy; confused: a disorderly desk.
- wonky — British Slang. shaky, groggy, or unsteady. unreliable; not trustworthy.
- skewwhiff — not straight; askew
- wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
adverb askew
- out of kilter — If one thing is out of kilter with another, the first thing does not agree with or fit in with the second.
- out of line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.