Askew

adv. & a.

1.

Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; - sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry.

Adj.	1.	askew - turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff" Synonyms: awry, cockeyed, skew-whiff, wonky, lopsided
Adv.	1.	askew - turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry" Synonyms: skew-whiff, awry

aberrant, abroad, adrift, agee, agee-jawed, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, anamorphous, askance, askant, askewgee, asquint, astray, asymmetric, at fault, bent, beside the mark, bowed, cam, catawampous, catawamptious, contorted, convulsed, corrupt, crazy, crookedly, crumpled, crunched, deceptive, defective, delusive, deranged, deviant, deviational, deviative, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorganized, distorted, disturbed, errant, erring, erroneous, fallacious, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, haywire, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, in disorder, irregular, labyrinthine, lopsided, misplaced, nonsymmetric, not right, not true, off, off the track, on the fritz, one-sided, out, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, peccant, perturbed, perverse, perverted, roily, self-contradictory, shuffled, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slaunchways, sprung, squinting, straying, tortuous, turbid, turbulent, twisted, unfactual, unorthodox, unproved, unsettled, unsymmetric, untrue, upset, wamper-jawed, warped, wide, wrong, wry, yaw-ways

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