Askew

Etymology
From á ská:, equivalent to. Compare á ská:,  skrå:,  Schräge:.

Adjective

 * 1) Turned or twisted to one side.
 * 2)  Untoward, unfavourable.

Adverb

 * 1) tilted to one side.
 * He wore his hat askew
 * 1) with disapproval
 * to look askew

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

Adjective

 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Spanish: torcido

Adverb

 * Finnish: ,


 * Finnish: vinosti,

Related terms

 * skew-whiff

Anagrams

 * wakes