off-kilter
adjective
off-kil·ter
ˈȯf-ˈkil-tər 
1
: not in perfect balance : a bit askew
off-kilter camera angles
His hat was slightly off-kilter.
2
: eccentric, unconventional
off-kilter characters
an off-kilter approach
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Examples of off-kilter in a Sentence
he's nice enough, but there's something a little off-kilter about him
to me, the painting on the wall looks a little off-kilter
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The narrator of this wonderfully off-kilter novel, an elderly man, recalls his doting grandmother and his boyhood infatuation with a girl who danced on the balcony opposite his family’s apartment, in Naples.
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The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
But not even Jackson and his usual otherworldliness could rescue Baltimore, in part because of the Steelers defense keeping him off-kilter, but also because of errors by those around him.
—Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 17 Nov. 2024
That’s one of the questions that animates this off-kilter, unsettling series executive-produced by M. Night Shyamalan, who directs several episodes, as does his daughter, filmmaker Ishana Night Shyamalan.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
By then, after so many years staring at a sideways world, everything had started to appear off-kilter.
—Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
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The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
But not even Jackson and his usual otherworldliness could rescue Baltimore, in part because of the Steelers defense keeping him off-kilter, but also because of errors by those around him.
—Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 17 Nov. 2024
That’s one of the questions that animates this off-kilter, unsettling series executive-produced by M. Night Shyamalan, who directs several episodes, as does his daughter, filmmaker Ishana Night Shyamalan.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
By then, after so many years staring at a sideways world, everything had started to appear off-kilter.
—Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Off-kilter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/off-kilter. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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