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kilter

noun as in trim

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There are off-kilter insights into male anger, entitlement and the often-arbitrary rules that govern our interactions—along with several hilariously weird concepts that become running jokes within the show’s cultish fan base.

From Time

A slightly off-kilter posture can cause a diver’s body to violently shake in midair, and a sudden gust of wind or pocket of air can cause a painful and drastic deceleration.

In general, as the proton-neutron balance gets more and more off-kilter, a nucleus gets further from stability, and its properties tend to get stranger.

Get it wrong and everything from targeting to measurement can be put out of kilter.

From Digiday

The prolonged shutdown, by throwing us off-kilter, may help us reimagine our futures, says psychologist Richard Tedeschi, professor emeritus at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

From Time

Does it give you any anxiety to be so convincing at playing a character so off-kilter?

After all, just about any off-kilter statement can be taken seriously if it comes from a member of Congress.

“Everybody was probably a little out of kilter,” Royko says.

Still shackled, with his trousers in shreds and radiating off-kilter aggression, Phoenix immediately begins wilding out.

One nice, anti-surreal detail from Sala: Thanks to skewed gears in its innards, his off-kilter clock tells perfect time.

He can't talk much, though; 'tain't good fur him; his lungs is out er kilter.

The truth is, I have never got over the last influenza yet, and am miserably out of heart and out of kilter.

And telepathy or perception goes out of kilter first because the psi is a very delicate factor.

That means, the basic atoms of matter had been thrown out of kilter, sorta deranged.

"Your thought-works are out of kilter, Sis," declared Chet, laughing again.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to kilter, such as: commission, condition, fettle, fitness, form, and order.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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