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View synonyms for skewed

skewed

[ skyood ]

adjective

  1. distorted or biased; giving an unfair or misleading view of something:

    After the global financial crisis, he came to realize that traditional economic models offer very skewed representations of actual economic reality.

  2. having an oblique or slanting direction or position; shaped, cut, or placed on a slant:

    When mounting a streetlight pole, orientation of the anchor bolts is important so that the pole base is not skewed in relation to the centerline of the roadway.

  3. deliberately slanted so as to conform to a specific concept or attitude, cater to the interests of a particular group, etc. (sometimes used in combination):

    The network has launched a new youth-skewed telenovela that has been averaging around 28 million viewers in Brazil.

    His world view is skewed to the concept that the strong exist to dominate the weak, so he judges people by their direct worth to him.

  4. Statistics. (of a distribution) having a disproportionate number of data points above or below the mean:

    There is a very skewed distribution of income, with the top 20 percent of the population earning 20 times what is earned by the poorest 20 percent.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of skew.

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Example Sentences

Walking through the center of town near Dunne Park offers keen observers a hidden funfair of skewed geometry.

The result, say critics such as Banzhaf, has been a process egregiously skewed against the accused.

How this leads to dysfunction, racial tension, and a skewed justice system.

On the summer programming spectrum, it skewed more towards “just plain silly,” sans the “but still curious” modifier.

As we saw in the last presidential election, skewed polls can make people make big mistakes.

Even the line he had made in the dust waggled, and was skewed and crooked like the trail of a blind worm.

He was leadin', but skewed around in his saddle to jaw back at Willomene for riding so ignorant.

But, as the Prophet saith; Let favour be skewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness.

I skewed the cross to a jeweller, who valued it at sixty-five Louis.

Judges are identified politically and their decisions are often skewed.

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