Depict misleadingly, as statistics

Usage examples of skew.

The architectonic purity of her world was constantly threatened by such hints of anarchy: gaps and excrescences and skew lines, and a shifting or tilting of planes to which she had continually to readjust lest the whole structure shiver into a disarray of discrete and meaningless signals.

I propped myself against the wall in the shower, hoping the hydrotherapy would mend my skewed circuits.

The patient is instructed not to move his eyes to look directly at the phosphene patterns that are generated during mapping, as eye movement will skew the results, making it necessary to repeat the stimulation sequence.

I mean that he could set the quintain at right angles to its normal position, charge it at a full gallop, and while passing three yards from it thrust his lance out to the side and skewer the hole every time.

The obstinacy of the French academy in refusing to adopt foreign words skews more pride than wisdom.

Their intermittent reports were rosily skewed, showing doctored images of a beautiful planet with untapped potential.

They both had shashlik, chunks of seasoned lamb grilled on a skewer, like Turkish shish kebab.

You are fair as Love himself, and this is an excellent opportunity for skewing you how much I love you.

I am angry with her for skewing too much, for I like to see the face and the general outlines of the form and to guess the rest.

The holoprojector is skewing around to the part of space I want us to look at.

Ship understood most questions, and the danger of skewing its responses no longer mattered.

This idiot was gripping his mount with muscularly bulging calves and thighs, and obviously meant to skewer the unarmoured Gael.

Her face was strangely skewed, oddly unsymmetrical, with one side seemingly pushed back and slightly smaller than the other.

Many have informed me that I should have severed his knee tendons when I was behind him, just as many have chided me that I did not thrust below the edge of the backplate and skewer his kidney.

Many have informed me that I should have severed his knee tendons when I was behind him, just as many have raided me that I did not thrust below the edge of the backplate and skewer his kidney.