skewed view
Warped way seeing
A skewed view is a perspective or understanding that is distorted, biased, or slanted away from accuracy or balance.
The phrase draws on the geometric sense of skew, meaning tilted or asymmetrical.
Someone with a skewed view of events sees them through a lens that warps reality, whether through prejudice, incomplete information, or wishful thinking.
Growing up wealthy gave him a skewed view of how most people live.
Media coverage can give viewers a skewed view of crime rates.
- biasedUnfairly favoring one side
- distortedMisshapen from original form
- warpedBent out of true
- slantedAngled from vertical
- lopsidedUnequally balanced
twisted · crooked · perspective · lens · blinders · tunnel · tunnel vision · prejudice · confirmation bias · echo chamber · party line · filtered · cherry picking · selective hearing · narrow · narrow minded · tinted · perception
- misjudgmentsmisjudgment, mistake, error, blunder, miscalculation
- misunderstandingsmisunderstanding, misinterpretation, misconception, misreading, miscommunication