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However, like many things in Japan, the statistics and the reality are always slightly askew.
That Byron himself had been raised a Scotsman and a Calvinist placed him from birth slightly askew from the ruling British elite.
Stuck on the wall behind the judge was a sheet of paper, slightly askew, with this word in neat black letters: “NORTH.”
“Beside me the young Brit was snoring softly now, his glasses askew on his fin-shaped nose,” Obama wrote.
Wearing a dark blazer and a slightly askew lavender tie, he could have passed for a young Tom Cruise.
She was a woman of too much natural and acquired poise to remain askew under any shock.
Ivan Afanasiitch stood still a moment, groped after his cap, put it on askew, and went out without closing his mouth.
To one side a great metal cylinder lay askew a heap of rubbish.
It looked very forlorn sitting askew in its forks, with a pair of worn-out finnesko hanging over it.
When Askew died in 1774 they were offered to a collector for two thousand guineas, but the price was considered too large.
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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to askew, such as: awry, off-center, askance, askant, aslant, and bent.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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