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1. CommonwealthIrelandUKcolloquialAskew; lopsided, not straight.

   I hung up that picture, but it looks skew-whiff to me.

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   “[…]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.”

   1971, Blackwood′s Magazine, volume 309, page 497

   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.

   1984, Punch, Volume 286, Part 1, page 87

   His genially skew-whiff posture for the camera may be intended to deflect easy attempts to get an angle on him.

   1997, Australian Literary Studies, volume 18, University of Tasmania, page 199

   Johnson replied, with a shake of his massive head so vigorous that his ill-fitting wig became even more skew-whiff:[…].

   1999, Alan Wall, The Lightning Cage, page 4

   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.

   2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN

   Synonyms: awry, agee