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askew

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1. askew - Adjective

2. askew - Adverb

4. askew - Adjective Satellite

5. Askew - Proper noun

Meaning

Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew. Desmond Tutu

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. Demi Moore

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. Howard Gardner

We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action. Stephen L. Carter

a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry Source: Internet

his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff Source: Internet

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