His wig is skew.
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Skew
/skjuː/
Synonyms for "skew" (227 found)
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Closest matches (46)
aberrancyaberrationageeagee-jawedangleangle offaskanceaskantaskewaskewgeeasquintasymmetricasymmetricalawrybear offbendbentbiasbranching offcatawampous
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Noun(16 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (68)
Noun(12 words)
data omissiondistortdistort quotedistort the factsdistorteddistortingdistortionfinaglingforce imbalanceframing an argumentgraph distortionimbalance
declinationdeflectdeflecteddeflectivedeparturedetourdeviancedeviancydeviatedeviationdeviousnessdiffractdiffracteddiffractivediffusediffuseddigressiondipdisbalancediscursion
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Adjective(1 words)
french biais
Related words (113)
inflectiveinsufficientirregularlaterallateralizelook asquintlurchmake leewaymismatchedobliqueobliquityoddout of proportionoverbalancepererrationpullramblingrefractrefractedrefractile
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refractiverefrangiblescatterscatteredsheershiftshiftingshifting courseshifting pathsideslipsidestepsidleskew-jawedskewedskidslantslaunchwaysslideslipslopesluesquinchsquintsquint the eyesquintingstrayingswaysweepswerveswervingswingingtackthrow off balanceturnturningtwistunbalanceunequalunevenupsetvariationveerwamper-jawedwanderingwarpwryyawyaw-wayszigzag
Noun(29 words)
leanmisalignmentmisguidingmisinterpretingmisreport numbersmisrepresentobliqueobliquityprejudiceskewnessslantslant angleslant rightslantedslantingslantstilttiltedtiltingtilts
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Verb(10 words)
Adjective(4 words)
Adjective(1 words)
neither parallel nor perpendicular
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
12 entriesadjustalteranglebiaschangedata attributedistortiongeometric propertymoveorientationreorientstatistical property
More specific
14 entriesbiased sampledata biasdata distortioninclinationleanmeasurement biasoblique lineobliquitysampling biasselection biasskewed distributionslantslanted planetilt
Collocations
15 entriesdata skewmeasurement skewsampling skewsituational skewskew angleskew dataskew distributionskew lineskew linesskew resultsskew towardskewed dataskewed distributionskewed interpretationskewed results
Inflections
5 entriesDerivations
3 entriesAntonyms
1 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
12 translations across 6 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- изкривявам verb (to form or shape in an oblique way)
Finnish
3 entries- muotoilla vinoksi verb (to form or shape in an oblique way)
- tehdä vinoksi verb (to form or shape in an oblique way)
- vinouttaa verb (to form or shape in an oblique way)
French
1 entries- incliner verb (to form or shape in an oblique way)
German
1 entries- verfälschen verb (to form or shape in an oblique way)
Hungarian
4 entries- dönt verb (to form or shape in an oblique way)
- elferdít verb (to form or shape in an oblique way)
- ferdén helyez el verb (to form or shape in an oblique way)
- ferdít verb (to form or shape in an oblique way)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- nakositi verb (to form or shape in an oblique way)
Sample sentences
49 total sentences available.
In desktop publishing, some software will allow a user to skew a word or phrase in order to slant the letters by 10 or 12 degrees from the vertical, while preserving the baseline.
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Despite Republican propaganda to the contrary, people making under $50,000 per year still skew overwhelmingly Democratic.
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When making this joint it is important to see that the eccentric or crank is at dead-centre; if it is at the end or limit of its stroke, the rubber is skewed the full length of same; if it is at the centre, the skewing, which is the cause of wear, is halved.
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