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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