When something goes wrong with a decent plan, you say it has gone awry. Losing your backpack is a mistake, but when you realize it contained your ticket and your passport, your vacation plans really go awry.
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;
Adverb
away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations"
Adverb
turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry"
adv. & a.
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.
adv. & a.
Aside from the line of truth, or right reason;
unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.
Awry
Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air.2.
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.
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;
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