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Skewing

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.

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skewing

n. The act of making something skewed; an alteration in a particular direction. vb. (present participle of skew English)

Usage examples of "skewing".

After skewing myself at the two principal walks of Paris, amusing myself by the astonishment depicted on certain faces well known to me, I went and returned the ear-rings to my dear Manon, who gave an astonished but a happy cry when she saw me.

I should be skewing my own weakness, and proclaiming that I was not the master in my own house, and that I could not prevent her establishing herself with me.

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.