skew

To skew is to twist something so it is not straight or to distort something so it is biased or unfair.

(verb)

An example of skew is when you fix a contest so it is biased in favor of your friends.

See skew in Webster's New World College Dictionary

intransitive verb

Origin: ME skewen < NormFr eskiuer, altered < OFr eschiver: see eschew

transitive verb

adjective

turned aside or to one side; slanting; oblique
having a part or arrangement that is so turned, as in gearing having the shafts neither parallel nor intersecting
not symmetrical

noun

See skew in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb skewed, skew·ing, skews

verb, intransitive

verb, transitive

adjective

Placed or turned to one side; asymmetrical.
Distorted or biased in meaning or effect.
Having a part that diverges, as in gearing.
a. Mathematics Neither parallel nor intersecting. Used of straight lines in space.
b. Statistics Not symmetrical about the mean. Used of distributions.

noun

An oblique or slanting movement, position, or direction.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English skewen, to escape, run sideways

Origin: , from Old North French eskiuer

Origin: , of Germanic origin

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