Rugs lying askew. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Alas, my mind was on Los Gigantes, and thus "askew" stuck. From Wordnik.com. [McCovey Chronicles] Reference
Society is all askew and, then, we have degraded women. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Here sits one whose life plans seem to have gone all askew. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference
Her chair is parked in the center of the room, wheels askew. From Wordnik.com. [Dumb Luck] Reference
I notice that a rubber gasket surrounding the sunroof is askew. From Wordnik.com. [Buying Experience: Infiniti G35, part 2] Reference
Eamon swallowed his sobs, giggled, pointed at my turban, askew. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference
Usually daisy-fresh, Dole looks haggard, his tie slightly askew. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble With Taxes] Reference
In the best-regulated o 'fam'lies things will go askew, I'm aweer. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891] Reference
Upon reaching her desk, she suspected that something was a bit askew. From Wordnik.com. [French Vanilla Death - Prima Parte] Reference
His graying, ginger hair laps over his earlobes, and his tie is askew. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Kennedy Remembered by Jean Baudrillard] Reference
Danny's eyes were closed, his jaw hanging askew, his wrists bound behind him. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
Then he straightened his high white pastry chef hat that always seemed askew. From Wordnik.com. [Cookie Head] Reference
It was clear she wanted to speak, but …. her brain still not set right; askew. From Wordnik.com. [Payout] Reference
The fellow was wearing one of his own products one day when it began to feel askew. From Wordnik.com. [Northeast of Eden (memoir)] Reference
And then you're forced to switch to survival mode, and your moral compass goes askew. From Wordnik.com. [PUTTING SPIKE ON THE SPOT] Reference
His jacket was open, his tie askew and his pocket handkerchief spilling from its place. From Wordnik.com. [Rangel's rambling floor speech has House Dems wishing they didn't recognize him] Reference
They are slightly askew and off-center, as if the German who injected them was in a hurry. From Wordnik.com. [A Nazi-Era Bill Finally Comes Due] Reference
He stumbles out of the shower, his hair askew, soap in his eyes, a towel around his waist. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Kennedy Remembered by Jean Baudrillard] Reference
Angioletto, with the deepest respect always, suffered a smile to play askew about his lips. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Colonel Peng replied in an askew English, the only language he had in common with Bushmilov. From Wordnik.com. [I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon] Reference
The effect of stiffness is not overcome by placing heavy pieces of furniture askew in a room. From Wordnik.com. [How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration] Reference
She talks about her messed up female parts askew in her interior, tangled tubes, crusted ovaries. From Wordnik.com. [Gorgeous World] Reference
It looks like boxes stacked a bit askew, which allows some daylight into the galleries from above. From Wordnik.com. [Ending the Era of the Starchitect] Reference
It's a skinny sort of heart tattoo, an askew heart from where I stand, an arrow from his point of view. From Wordnik.com. [Goldfish] Reference
The line, with dishevelled hair, aprons and kerchiefs askew, had formed into the square of a quadrille. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
His stock seemed to fit him more tightly than before and his wig sat more askew than ever upon his bald head. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
She'd turned away from him, but kept the image of his the lip stick stain on his collar and his tie set askew. From Wordnik.com. [Easter Sunday] Reference
Journegan, if he wouldn't give me a twist that would slew my innerds askew and send me flying acrost the room. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"] Reference
Eventually the waitress arrived, and, somewhat startled at their askew appearances, asked them what they wanted. From Wordnik.com. [The Weird Gods] Reference
Stout as were the uprights sustaining it, it had received the impact of a body sufficiently heavy to throw it askew. From Wordnik.com. [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference
There was a scream, and my old friend came flying towards me, her cap (with lilac trimmings) shaken askew by her haste. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
They are slightly askew and off-center, just right of the sternum, as if the German who injected them was in a big hurry. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Company] Reference
What makes the Tezcuco bridge more curious is that it is set askew, which must have made its construction more difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
With that you insure yourself against getting your composition askew, or losing a good picture on account of a shaky hand. From Wordnik.com. [If You Don't Write Fiction] Reference
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