skewed

adjective

ˈskyüd 

1

: distorted from a true value or symmetrical form

problematic polling methods that resulted in skewed data

… a series of orange and yellow skewed shapes with mesh squares of different sizes …

—Natalie Savino

2

: deviating from what is normal, direct, or accurate

The treatment will later attempt to correct the anorexic's skewed [=distorted] perceptions about her body.

—Daniel Goleman

More broadly, some critics argue our über-emphasis on sports shows a skewed set of priorities.

—Kase Wickman et al.

This issue of control, and of the price paid for following the sometimes skewed road leading toward self-invention, is among the themes now being grappled with by Mary Harron …

—The New Yorker

Allowing even for my invariably skewed sense of direction, and the dark and sinuous roads that had delivered me to my door the night before, navigating the property is a challenge.

—Nancy Novogrod

Synonyms

• tilted
• uneven
• crooked
• oblique

Examples of skewed in a Sentence

he could see that the ropes had gotten all skewed in the collision

Recent Examples on the Web

Astronomy neophytes sometimes mistake the Pleiades star cluster for the Little Dipper because the brightest Pleiades stars resemble a tiny, skewed dipper. —Joe Rao, Space.com, 27 June 2025

The thrill of witnessing great drag has been overshadowed by skewed judging. —Chris Feil, Vulture, 27 June 2025

The family that initially felt so shiny and self-contained gives way to individual stories that butt up against one another at skewed angles. —Book Marks june 27, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025

The marketplace of ideas becomes skewed; the choices of buyers in that marketplace are circumscribed. —James L. Gibson, The Conversation, 26 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1611, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for skewed

• accrued
• allude
• collude
• conclude
• construed
• debuted
• delude
• elude
• endued
• ensued
• eschewed
• etude