skewjawed

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1. Crooked, misaligned, or disorganized.

   Their thicknesses vary wildly; splotches hover over skewjawed jabs.

   2016, Barbara Hurd, Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-heard Melodies, page 29

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   Though, after all, it's kinder skewjawed. I'd like tu see the closet It's only shelves, hey?

   1877, Mary Kyle Dallas, The Grinder Papers, page 130

   Thinking that something about those stories I used to carry around in my pocket when I was a kid, reading them to shreds, must have been a little skewjawed.

   1952, Zoe Lund Schiller, A Candle for a Star, page 209

   The sudden cold skewjawed the strings. He tuned three times before the strings quit warping off.

   2012, Peter Bowen, Specimen Song