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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ASKEW', adv.
With a wry look; aside; askant; sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or envy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff" [syn: askew, awry, cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff] adv
1: turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry" [syn: askew, awry, skew- whiff]

Merriam Webster's

adverb or adjective Etymology: probably from ¹a- + skew Date: 1567 out of line ; awry <the picture hung askew> • askewness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adv. & predic.adj. --adv. obliquely; awry. --predic.adj. oblique; awry. Etymology: A(2) + SKEW

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Askew A*skew", adv. & a. [Pref. a- + skew.] Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry. --Spenser.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Something that is askew is not straight or not level with what it should be level with. There were no shutters at the windows, and some of the doors hung askew. ADJ: v-link ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

ad. Awry, obliquely, atwist, askile, aside, askance, askant, aslant, asquint, to one side.

Moby Thesaurus

aberrant, abroad, adrift, agee, agee-jawed, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, anamorphous, askance, askant, askewgee, asquint, astray, asymmetric, at fault, awry, bent, beside the mark, bowed, cam, catawampous, catawamptious, contorted, convulsed, corrupt, crazy, crooked, crookedly, crumpled, crunched, deceptive, defective, delusive, deranged, deviant, deviational, deviative, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, distorted, disturbed, errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, haywire, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, in disorder, irregular, labyrinthine, lopsided, misplaced, nonsymmetric, not right, not true, off, off the track, on the fritz, one-sided, out, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, peccant, perturbed, perverse, perverted, roily, self-contradictory, shuffled, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slaunchways, sprung, squinting, straying, tortuous, turbid, turbulent, twisted, unfactual, unorthodox, unproved, unsettled, unsymmetric, untrue, upset, wamper-jawed, warped, wide, wrong, wry, yaw-ways