- distorted or biased; giving an unfair or misleading view of something:After the global financial crisis, he came to realize that traditional economic models offer very skewed representations of actual economic reality.
- having an oblique or slanting direction or position; shaped, cut, or placed on a slant:When mounting a streetlight pole, orientation of the anchor bolts is important so that the pole base is not skewed in relation to the centerline of the roadway.
- deliberately slanted so as to conform to a specific concept or attitude, cater to the interests of a particular group, etc. (sometimes used in combination):The network has launched a new youth-skewed telenovela that has been averaging around 28 million viewers in Brazil.His world view is skewed to the concept that the strong exist to dominate the weak, so he judges people by their direct worth to him.
- (of a distribution) having a disproportionate number of data points above or below the mean:There is a very skewed distribution of income, with the top 20 percent of the population earning 20 times what is earned by the poorest 20 percent.
- the simple past tense and past participle of skew.
