Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Turned aside; distorted; awry.
- Skew-bald; piebald.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Twisted at anangle . - adjective
Biased ,distorted (pertaining to statistics or information). - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
skew .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having an oblique or slanting direction or position
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Examples
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The Daily Beast obtained the script of the first episode, uncovering some reasons why the family would want what they called a skewed version of events to be kept off television.
Breast Fondling, JFK's Affairs In Dropped 'The Kennedys' Miniseries Jordan Zakarin 2011
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The Daily Beast obtained the script of the first episode, uncovering some reasons why the family would want what they called a skewed version of events to be kept off television.
Breast Fondling, JFK's Affairs In Dropped 'The Kennedys' Miniseries Jordan Zakarin 2011
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The Daily Beast obtained the script of the first episode, uncovering some reasons why the family would want what they called a skewed version of events to be kept off television.
Breast Fondling, JFK's Affairs In Dropped 'The Kennedys' Miniseries Jordan Zakarin 2011
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The Daily Beast obtained the script of the first episode, uncovering some reasons why the family would want what they called a skewed version of events to be kept off television.
Breast Fondling, JFK's Affairs In Dropped 'The Kennedys' Miniseries Jordan Zakarin 2011
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I have this crazy idea that if the nightly news shows covered any one of hundreds of important stories of the day, but not the obvious ones they all cover in exactly the same way, in a manner that was ever so slightly skewed from the conventional narrative, like even the hardly revolutionary 60 Minutes, that a ratings monster would be born.
Matthew Yglesias » Glenn Beck’s HLN Replacement Allready Beating Him in the Ratings 2009
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Their results for Atlantic Canada is insanely skewed from the other companies.
2008 Federal Election Poll Tracker: Day 31 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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Since I'm so late with this, I'll be surprised if anybody reads it; and, though my subject is a bit skewed from the topic, I want to post it anyway.
Teach me tonight 2008
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Their results for Atlantic Canada is insanely skewed from the other companies.
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If this is anything like the regular Children's Choices selection, the choices are skewed from the beginning.
The Many Mysteries of Children's Choices Roger Sutton 2008
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Our situation is skewed from the norm - we are a bit younger than most posters here (40 & 42), we owned a house in San Franicsco and the kiddos were in private preschool in SF (there is no public preschool.)
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