kilter

Get it wrong and everything from targeting to measurement can be put out of kilter.

The prolonged shutdown, by throwing us off-kilter, may help us reimagine our futures, says psychologist Richard Tedeschi, professor emeritus at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Does it give you any anxiety to be so convincing at playing a character so off-kilter?

After all, just about any off-kilter statement can be taken seriously if it comes from a member of Congress.

“Everybody was probably a little out of kilter,” Royko says.

Still shackled, with his trousers in shreds and radiating off-kilter aggression, Phoenix immediately begins wilding out.

One nice, anti-surreal detail from Sala: Thanks to skewed gears in its innards, his off-kilter clock tells perfect time.

He can't talk much, though; 'tain't good fur him; his lungs is out er kilter.

The truth is, I have never got over the last influenza yet, and am miserably out of heart and out of kilter.

And telepathy or perception goes out of kilter first because the psi is a very delicate factor.

That means, the basic atoms of matter had been thrown out of kilter, sorta deranged.

"Your thought-works are out of kilter, Sis," declared Chet, laughing again.