Synonyms for skewing
- alter
- bias
- misrepresent
- slant
- bend
- change
- color
- contort
- curve
- doctor
- fake
- falsify
- fudge
- twist
- warp
- misshape
- throw off balance
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"Here is something to make you a winter dress," said I, skewing her the silk.
Calm yourself, and don't be afraid of my skewing you any violence; that would suit your game too well.
WORD ORIGIN
late 15c., "to turn aside" (intransitive), from Old North French eskiuer "shy away from, avoid," Old French eschiver (see eschew). Transitive sense of "turn (something) aside" is from 1570s. Meaning "depict unfairly" first recorded 1872, on notion of being "give oblique direction to," hence "to distort, to make slant." Statistical sense dates from 1929. Related: Skewed; skewing. The adjectival meaning "slanting, turned to one side" is recorded from c.1600, from the verb; noun meaning "slant, deviation" first attested 1680s.
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