Meaning of skew-whiff | Babel Free

Definitions

Askew; lopsided, not straight.

Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, colloquial

Examples

“I hung up that picture, but it looks skew-whiff to me.”

““[…]I′ve just been looking up at them and it seems to me that Cassiopeia′s Chair is a bit more skew-whiff than usual. Either it′s been moved or we′re heading the wrong way.””

“I nudged him to remember what was surely the best day of his life—when he had walked serenely through the milling throng, moist-eyed, and sheepish grin more skew-whiff than ever, in the starling-shrieking, jabbering cockpit of that tumbledown stadium at Delhi on Christmas Eve in 1981.”

“His genially skew-whiff posture for the camera may be intended to deflect easy attempts to get an angle on him.”

“Johnson replied, with a shake of his massive head so vigorous that his ill-fitting wig became even more skew-whiff:[…].”

“He wasn′t wearing shoes or a jacket and tie, and his front stud was undone, so that the white collar stood up skew-whiff.”

“In a gorgeous old stone-fronted house at a skew-whiff angle to the road, this main-street, mainstream eatery serves big breakfasts, pizzas, burgers, lasagne, focaccias, bruschetta and salads.”

“The Cat is a large, comfortable space with a great atmosphere and skew-whiff 1950s decor (a Melbourne trademark).”

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