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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
skewed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Many people heard only inaccurate, skewed reports about the trial.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A lanky boy was skewed, one half of his body sliding from the other.
▪ And such conditions, as noted previously, are an ideal medium for the cultivation of skewed or corrosive organizational beliefs.
▪ I would here like to give two examples of such skewed populations and to speculate on the seeming anomaly.
▪ In the Third World land scarcity among the poor is due to skewed ownership, not an overload of people.
▪ It gives me a rather skewed impression of humankind.
▪ Record retention will lead to a skewed vision of the contemporary world.
▪ The agreement also ensured that the skewed economic and social system would continue, as well as the neoliberal economic policies.
▪ The geographical spread of the observers is skewed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skewed

Skew \Skew\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Skewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Skewing.]

  1. To walk obliquely; to go sidling; to lie or move obliquely.

    Child, you must walk straight, without skewing.
    --L'Estrange.

  2. To start aside; to shy, as a horse. [Prov. Eng.]

  3. To look obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
    --Beau. & Fl.

Wiktionary
skewed

  1. 1 twisted at an angle. 2 biased, distorted (pertaining to statistics or information). v

  2. (en-past of: skew)

WordNet
skewed

adj. having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew" [syn: skew]

Usage examples of "skewed".

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

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

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

The flint had skewed in the doghead and he released the screw, adjusted the leather patch that gripped the flint, then tightened it down.

Inverness cape over his tweedy sports coat and had a Holmesian deerstalker cap on his head at a slightly skewed angle.

Florence by contrast was an animated Cezanne in a painfully bright flower-print dress with bits and ends that bobbled with the jiggling of her Junoesque proportions, topped off with precisely the wrong hat skewed at a precarious angle.

And if he was, was he suggesting it about one overambitious gorgon with skewed priorities, or about a treacherous vein, you should forgive the term, running through all of SOF?

He skewed me a very nice one at a Louis a month, and I paid in advance.

I embraced the lover, and then more amorously I performed the same office for the mistress, and skewed them my purse full of gold, telling them it was at their service.

The poor priest drew out the letter and skewed it to the official, who opened it, looked at the signature, and absolutely shrieked when he saw the name Squillace.

Sara skewed no surprise nor confusion at the sight of me, but I was petrified.

On the tortured mans chest were several bloody slashes, two perfect diagonals intersecting to create a jagged cross, or from Maggies angle, a skewed X.

He skewed one he had had for Bilbao, but the official was not satisfied.

Earthsiders, as the Outworlders called the masses who remained on the planet, was tremendously skewed in the negative, a portrait of a suffering and miserable planet of horror under a regime that made Hitler look like the head of the Boy Scouts.

He then skewed me a letter from Voltaire thanking him for playing Montrose in his Ecossaise.