askew

“Beside me the young Brit was snoring softly now, his glasses askew on his fin-shaped nose,” Obama wrote.

Wearing a dark blazer and a slightly askew lavender tie, he could have passed for a young Tom Cruise.

She was a woman of too much natural and acquired poise to remain askew under any shock.

Ivan Afanasiitch stood still a moment, groped after his cap, put it on askew, and went out without closing his mouth.

To one side a great metal cylinder lay askew a heap of rubbish.

It looked very forlorn sitting askew in its forks, with a pair of worn-out finnesko hanging over it.

When Askew died in 1774 they were offered to a collector for two thousand guineas, but the price was considered too large.