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Distorted Awry Crossword Clue

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199%4Exact Match!
248%10 Assumption that if something can go awry, it will go awry
329%7 Creating a distorted or distorted image

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We think the answer is "SKEW" which means:

    adjective satellite
  • • Having an oblique or slanting direction or position
  • verb
  • • Turn or place at an angle
  • noun
  • • Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
  • • An oblique or sideways movement.
  • • A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
  • • A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
  • • A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
  • • A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
  • • The coping of a gable.
  • • One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.
  • adjective
  • • Neither parallel nor at right angles to a certain line; askew.
  • • Of two lines in three-dimensional space: neither intersecting nor parallel.
  • • Of a distribution: asymmetrical about its mean.
  • adverb
  • • Askew, obliquely; awry.

An example sentence would be:

  • • "He skewed the data to support his argument."
  • • "The biased reporter skewed the information to fit his narrative."

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The Guardian Speedy06 May 2012 Down 18
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