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/ˈskjuː.(w)ɪf/ · adjective
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) Askew; lopsided, not straight..
I hung up that picture, but it looks skew-whiff to me.
“[…]I′ve just been looking up at them and it seems to me that Cassiopeia′s Chair is a bit more skew-whiff than usual. Either it′s been moved or we′re heading the wrong way.”
I nudged him to remember what was surely the best day of his life—when he had walked serenely through the milling throng, moist-eyed, and sheepish grin more skew-whiff than ever, in the starling-shrieking, jabbering cockpit of that tumbledown stadium at Delhi on Christmas Eve in 1981.
His genially skew-whiff posture for the camera may be intended to deflect easy attempts to get an angle on him.
Johnson replied, with a shake of his massive head so vigorous that his ill-fitting wig became even more skew-whiff:[…].
He wasn′t wearing shoes or a jacket and tie, and his front stud was undone, so that the white collar stood up skew-whiff.
In a gorgeous old stone-fronted house at a skew-whiff angle to the road, this main-street, mainstream eatery serves big breakfasts, pizzas, burgers, lasagne, focaccias, bruschetta and salads.
The Cat is a large, comfortable space with a great atmosphere and skew-whiff 1950s decor (a Melbourne trademark).
Use skew-whiff when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Skew-whiff means (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) Askew; lopsided, not straight..
Common synonyms include awry, agee.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I hung up that picture, but it looks skew-whiff to me.
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