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kilter

[ UK /kˈɪltɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɪɫtɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. in working order
    out of kilter
    in good kilter

How To Use kilter In A Sentence

  • The buoyant mood of his audience was certainly out of kilter with the deep undercurrent of frustration evident elsewhere in Bournemouth this week.
  • But, you wouldn't know by looking, because he's an abrasive, arrogant, off-kilter man trying to make his idiosyncratic way in academia.
  • This show, held in cavernous, candelabra-strewn space that had a whiff of ruined empire, had plenty of strong, practical pieces: impeccably cut overcoats, running the gamut from deepest navy and ashiest gray to the purest white with black trimming; three-piece suits tailored with Browne's signature off-kilter proportions, and a pair of gray corduroy pants strewn with white snowflakes. Esquire.com Article Feed
  • Edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden, etext format mangling by Kindle Unkiltering. Making Light: Amazon versus Macmillan
  • There is room on the list for some wonderful, stoned, noodly incoherence from Helvetia ( "this one-way street doesn't allow bicycles/Oh no") and some moving, outsider, off-kilter folk from Kath Bloom ( "I knew that I would ride with you/If I could"). Readers recommend songs about bicycles: The Results
  • Her sentence is nonetheless unduly harsh and rather stupidly unimaginative, as well as completely out of kilter with community expectations.
  • The economic and the political are out of kilter; to use a homely metaphor, it is like bike gears crunching.
  • In any case there is the war, a hilltop, a huntsman, and a mournful reveille to life - described in sentences so off-kilter and beautiful you don't know whether to cry out for help or just start crying.
  • She uses the word kilter and not in the out-of sense. The Good and the Bad...
  • The acceleration of evolutionary processes would take place out of kilter with the parallel evolution required to keep an ecological balance. Times, Sunday Times
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