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Skew   Listen
verb
Skew  v. t.  
1.
To shape or form in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
2.
To throw or hurl obliquely.





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"Skew" Quotes from Famous Books



... made his services at times so very useful to his country; his powers seemed in their full meridian of splendour when an argument or new doctrine permitted him rapidly to run down into its consequence, and then brilliantly and wittily to skew its defects. In this he eminently excelled. The beauties of the anti-Jacobin are replete with his satire. He never attempted a display of depth, but his dry sarcasm left a sting which those he intended to wound carried off 'in pain and mortfication'. This scheme ...
— The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 • James Gillman


Words linked to "Skew" :   reorient, inclined, skewed, skewness, skew arch, skew-whiff, skew correlation


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