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schief (adj/adv)
   crooked, not straight; lopsided, tilted; badly, awry, wrong

Das Bild hängt schief.
The picture is crooked. (...is hanging crookedly.)
The picture isn’t straight.

Related:
schief gehen to go wrong
die Schiefe crookedness, tilt, inclination

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