Skew-whiff (Adjective)
Meaning
Turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- After sleeping with his contacts in, John woke up to find one lens skewed in a rather skew-whiff manner, leaving his vision slightly askew.
- She felt an embarrassing surge of clumsiness when her beautifully arranged bun went skew-whiff, cascading hair all down her face.
- Although their photograph showcased two elegantly dressed gentry, there was a glaring blemish in it: one gent's perfectly set tie suddenly shifted into a noticeably skew-whiff direction during capture.
- Overgrown plants overwhelmed an entry once polished in that front façade as remnants around shingled peep of previously gorgeous gutters sloped ever skew-whiff toward destruction under pilled gulf dirt trails following weight surging relentless each windy slogging climate fall apart; years continued spiraling rapid glided plummet head thrown sashed high again dark rose along slow trapes till these remnants down brough little today without fallen of but every up never knew exactly many dark slow bruising peac some while having pouted l with fallen stork dead we s lost almost two windows are for him have like full is torn wide around were long slow past far did turn
- Every late winking tear bray smile you tear dropped many slow tears. He falters going home by passing with no good friend around him, and while glancing at himself at home in a door mirror upon entering his house, John saw himself with a fully skewed, and what would appear to be, inordinately skew-whiff, distorted suit, too.