skewed
IPA: skjˈud
adjective
- Twisted at an angle.
- (statistics, of information) Biased, distorted
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Examples of "skewed" in Sentences
- Both the language and the references are skewed to vilify the subjects.
- Their results for Atlantic Canada is insanely skewed from the other companies.
- If this is anything like the regular Children's Choices selection, the choices are skewed from the beginning.
- Since I'm so late with this, I'll be surprised if anybody reads it; and, though my subject is a bit skewed from the topic, I want to post it anyway.
- The Daily Beast obtained the script of the first episode, uncovering some reasons why the family would want what they called a skewed version of events to be kept off television.
- Our situation is skewed from the norm - we are a bit younger than most posters here (40 & 42), we owned a house in San Franicsco and the kiddos were in private preschool in SF (there is no public preschool.)
- I have this crazy idea that if the nightly news shows covered any one of hundreds of important stories of the day, but not the obvious ones they all cover in exactly the same way, in a manner that was ever so slightly skewed from the conventional narrative, like even the hardly revolutionary 60 Minutes, that a ratings monster would be born.
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