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adverb

Awry adv., adj.

Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. "Your crown's awry." "Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air."

Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely. "Or by her charms Draws him awry, enslaved." "Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Awry" Quotes from Famous Books

... her red delicate mouth went awry with dismay and disappointment, and her expression was the half incredulous expression of a child suddenly and cruelly disappointed: "You won't go on with ...

— Soul of a Bishop • H. G. Wells

... lay there sobbing her heart out, I upright on my knees beside her, staring at blank space, which reeled and reeled, so that the room swam all awry, and I strove to steady it with fixed gaze, lest the whole ...

— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers

... state, whenever we chose to forget the crimes that made it great and the designs that made it formidable. People imagined that their ceasing to resist was the sure way to be secure. This "pale cast of thought" sicklied over all their enterprises, and turned all their politics awry. They could not, or rather they would not, read, in the most unequivocal declarations of the enemy, and in his uniform conduct, that more safety was to be found in the most arduous war than in the friendship of that kind of being. Its hostile amity can be obtained on no terms that do not ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short, take heed therefore thou strike not awry.' As he spoke, he drew out a handkerchief he had brought with him, and, binding it over his eyes, he stretched himself out on the platform and laid ...

— The Red Book of Heroes • Leonora Blanche Lang

... Deaf-Chief, too, With head awry, who cannot hear us speak Though thunder shouted for us from the skies, Yet hears the Long-Knives whisper at Vincennes; And, when they jest upon our miseries, Grips his old leathern sides, ...

— Tecumseh: A Drama • Charles Mair

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