[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to give an oblique direction to; shape, form, or cut obliquely:In a crochet project, a slip stitch can skew the edge a bit if you use it to finish the final round.", "to make conform to a specific concept, attitude, or planned result; slant :The television show is skewed to the young teenager.", "to distort; depict unfairly:When other researchers looked into the report, they found misrepresentation of data that skewed the evidence.", "Statistics.to cause (a distribution) to have a disproportionate number of data points above or below the mean:The income categories for transit commuters were skewed toward higher incomes because the survey was only distributed through a phone app."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to turn aside or swerve; take an oblique course:The car skewed sharply to the right when it hit the patch of ice.", "to display a tendency in a particular direction:My reading skews toward nonfiction, which I suppose isn't surprising for a historian.", "to be distorted or unfairly depicted:The narrative presented by the country's leading newspapers skews toward an account that fits the needs of the state.", "to look obliquely; squint ."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a tendency in a particular direction:Officials involved in budget-related discussions said that there was a skew towards social sector spending.", "an oblique movement, direction, or position.", "Also calledskew chisel.a wood chisel having a cutting edge set obliquely."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["having an oblique direction or position; slanting; sideways:The picture is square, but the angles of the trees give it a skew look.", "having a part that deviates from a straight line, right angle, etc.:skew gearing.", "Mathematics.(of a dyad or dyadic) equal to the negative of its conjugate.", "(of an arch, bridge, etc.) having the centerline of its opening forming an oblique angle with the direction in which its spanning structure is built.", "Statistics.(of a distribution) not symmetrical; having skewness ."]}]