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Recent Examples of off-kilter Primus specialize in bass-heavy, off-kilter rock with a goofy sense of humor. Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 2 June 2025 Both artists are masters of the avant-garde, Black futurists, and off-kilter divas. Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 30 May 2025 With Friendship being a more of an off-kilter comedy, what would the blooper reel look like? Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025 Honey Don’t! lays out a world that is consistently off-kilter, but doesn’t really commit to it beyond a surface level. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 23 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for off-kilter
Recent Examples of Synonyms for off-kilter
Adjective
  • This bizarre tale about being picked up by bounty hunters, taken to an unmarked warehouse without access to food, water or an attorney were clearly fabricated.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
  • Alicia Hannah-Kim is breaking her silence after a bizarre incident with Cobra Kai costar Martin Kove earlier this month resulted in him being removed from a fan event for biting her.
    Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Additionally, although each member of the crew has their own particular skillset, the time spent on individual characters is uneven, and a smaller cast would have likely made things more effective.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 June 2025
  • Moreover, the legal playing field itself can be quite uneven.
    Mark Berookim, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • This film is set entirely inside a taxi cab that Panahi is driving around Tehran, as different people drift in and out of his car with their own strange and very personal dramas.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • But one of the strangest well wishes came not from a person, but a 1,400-foot-tall building.
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Sometimes your audio is all screwed up and echoing, there are weird pauses everywhere, and nothing interesting gets said.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • People talk about uncanny valley in terms of the look of these robots – there’s kind of a weird uncanny valley thing going on as well with AI artwork.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • What Pete Rose did was selfish, illicit, shameful, crooked.
    John Nogowski, Hartford Courant, 14 May 2025
  • Meanwhile, a crooked wayfarer named St. Christophe (Jackson) is hot on Broadway’s trail, catching up with the young man and revealing that his dead dad wasn’t, in fact, a stand-up guy.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • McGrath's older brother and two of her younger sisters described her as funny, sarcastic, full of life and so caring that the homeless in her neighborhood greeted her by name.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 25 June 2025
  • Much like his character, Boyce is mild-mannered, kind and effortlessly funny.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • At this point, Chisholm’s teammates must have his lyrics memorized, as he’s been nearly unstoppable since returning from an oblique strain earlier this month.
    Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025
  • Lost Gold Glove shortstop Ezequiel Tovar for most of the first half, first because of a bruised hip, and now because of a strained oblique.
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • Juve haven’t looked genuine title contenders in Italy for half a decade, and the current side is a mismatch of talented youth and odd signings.
    Emmet Gates, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • The odd creature turned out to be a new species of dragon millipede, according to a study published June 25 in the journal Invertebrate Systematics.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 30 June 2025

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“Off-kilter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/off-kilter. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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