askew

alternative askue · alternative ascue · alternative askoye · alternative a skew

1. Turned or twisted to one side.

   Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of "Stonewall Jackson’s Way." We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o'er his eye askew, the shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true.

   1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way

   Synonyms: off-center

2. figurativelyUntoward, unfavourable.

comparative more askew · superlative most askew · alternative askue · alternative ascue · alternative askoye · alternative a skew

1. Tilted to one side.

   He wore his hat askew

plural Askews · alternative Ayscough

1. A surname.