off-kilter / ˈɔfˈkɪl tər, ˈɒf‐ /

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off-kilter 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. not exactly straight or balanced; askew; uneven: off-kilter paintings on every wall.
  2. not completely well; somewhat ill: still off-kilter two weeks after the flu.
  3. unusual or eccentric; unconventional: short stories with off-kilter endings.

更多off-kilter例句

  1. Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
  2. A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
  3. The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
  4. The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
  5. Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.
  6. A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
  7. He can't talk much, though; 'tain't good fur him; his lungs is out er kilter.
  8. Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.
  9. In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.
  10. There was something about the man that Matt liked, in spite of the deceit he had practised at the start-off of their acquaintance.