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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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My day today is off kilter from the norm, but still busy.
The Ordinary Day 2008
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I was off-kilter from the start - my alarm didn't go off so I slept in.
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I was off-kilter from the start - my alarm didn't go off so I slept in.
September 2005 2005
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As for right now, Eastern Standard Time has left us — migrating over one time zone arena. grin Until our new Daylight Savings Times overlords allow things to go back to kilter, that is.
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She uses the word kilter and not in the out-of sense.
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these would never fly - and, the strut landing gear on the middle body - the orientation is askew, off "kilter" - so would have problems in landing.
Lovell, Photos, and Maquettes James Gurney 2010
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Oddly, Ms. McDonagh simply tries to confuse the issues and the meanings of unavoidable boundaries by reasserting her own specialized lexicon of plausible sounding, but profoundly off-kilter, meanings.
Thinking Anglicans 2008
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They know how everything is connected in circles, and how things get way out of kilter if you pull one person out of a system and elevate or lower them to a different plane than the others.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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Through it all, Chelsea never lets anyone off the hook, even herself, as she delivers page after page of irrevent humor, biting wit, and deliciously off-kilter entertainment.
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR MARCH 7TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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Through it all, Chelsea never lets anyone off the hook, even herself, as she delivers page after page of irrevent humor, biting wit, and deliciously off-kilter entertainment.
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR MARCH 7TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
bilby commented on the word kilter
Interesting that AHD cites an example with positive polarity.
February 26, 2013