askew
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 5
/əˈskju/
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/əˈskju/ · /əˈskjuː/ (UK)
Definition of askew
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Turned or twisted to one side.
“Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of "Stonewall Jackson’s Way." We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o'er his eye askew, the shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true.”
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adj
-
Turned or twisted to one side.
“Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of "Stonewall Jackson’s Way." We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o'er his eye askew, the shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true.”
- (figuratively)Untoward, unfavourable.
adv
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Tilted to one side.
“He wore his hat askew”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From a- + skew.
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