awry /əˈraɪ/
(a.)(ad.)歪曲的,歪斜的,出錯的
A·wry adv. & a.
1. 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. --Milton.
2. Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.
Or by her charms
Draws him awry, enslaved. --Milton.
Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men. --Milton.
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awry
adj 1: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a
gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his
wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff" [syn: askew,
awry(p), cockeyed, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff]
2: not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone
completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
[syn: amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)]
adv 1: away from the correct or expected course; "something has
gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss
in the preparations" [syn: amiss]
2: turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his
necktie twisted awry" [syn: askew, skew-whiff]