askew
/əˈskju/ adjectif C2En français : de travers, de guingois, de traviole, oblique
- Turned or twisted to one side.
- Untoward, unfavourable.
Dans la bibliothèque
But Marilla could not rid herself of the notion that something in her scheme of punishment was going askew.
Phillips’s brief reforming energy was over; he didn’t want the bother of punishing a dozen pupils; but it was necessary to do something to save his word, so he looked about for a scapegoat and found it in Anne, who had dropped into her seat, gasping for breath, with a forgotten lily wreath hanging askew over one ear and giving her a particularly rakish and disheveled appearance.
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