"picture-skew" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1926: Florence Nelson & C F Scheer, Safety education (Education Division, National Safety Council), page 22",
          "text": "However, in a broad-brimmed hat\nAnd frilly dress, she figured that\nShe looked quite sweet and picture-skew,\nWhen seated in a green canoe."
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          "ref": "1943: James Styles, The Soul of the Universe, and Other Poems (New Method Ptg. Co.), page 12",
          "text": "This was their first trip on this road.\nThat they were thrilled, their faces showed.\nOne of them oft admired the view,\nExclaiming, “Ain’t that picture-skew”!"
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          "ref": "1945: New statesman: The Week-end Review (Statesman and Nation Publishing), page 31",
          "text": "Cheap-looking, true — but picture-skew — my Kots will stretch for miles […]"
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          "ref": "1958, George Smith, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 170, numbers 1015-1020, Smith, Elder and co, page 333",
          "text": "“[…] I thought it was out of date to like things to be picture-skew,” Peter said, […]\nPicture-skew; a bit of tout droit; carry on, Jeeves; the horrible puns […]",
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          "ref": "2005, Philip Hart, The Flight of the Mystic Owls, Kessinger Publishing, page 184",
          "text": "“[…] We’ll get the elk and the deer and the rocks in our own picture-skew way, won’t we, Ron?”\n“If you mean ‘picturesque’ I’d say that you are quite right. […]”",
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          "ref": "1926: Florence Nelson & C F Scheer, Safety education (Education Division, National Safety Council), page 22",
          "text": "However, in a broad-brimmed hat\nAnd frilly dress, she figured that\nShe looked quite sweet and picture-skew,\nWhen seated in a green canoe."
        },
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          "ref": "1943: James Styles, The Soul of the Universe, and Other Poems (New Method Ptg. Co.), page 12",
          "text": "This was their first trip on this road.\nThat they were thrilled, their faces showed.\nOne of them oft admired the view,\nExclaiming, “Ain’t that picture-skew”!"
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          "ref": "1945: New statesman: The Week-end Review (Statesman and Nation Publishing), page 31",
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