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Adj.	1.	skew-whiff - 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" askew, awry, cockeyed, wonky, lopsided crooked - having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
Adv.	1.	skew-whiff - turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry" askew, awry

Translations

skew-whiff

[ˌskjuːˈwɪf] ADJ (Brit) (= twisted) → torcido, chueco (LAm)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

skew-whiff

[ˈskjuːˈwɪf] adj (Brit) (fam) → a sghimbescio

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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She was skew-whiff; wondered if they'd been there in the first place.

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Surely and obviously police man-hour schedules are rather skew-whiff. I think that it would be far cheaper and far more useful and productive for communities to have some sort of visible police presence more often in those communities who are subjected to high levels of crime.

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She puts on a marvellous moustache -- a bushy black one which curls up at the ends and sometimes, because it's fixed on with elastic, goes a bit skew-whiff.

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Kate loved nothing more than spending time with her it's just that her own plans for the evening were now slightly skew-whiff. She had had it all worked out - it would be just her and Paul, finally on their own together, but now, it seemed, they were to have a chaperone, albeit in the shape of her beloved niece.

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