awry
adjective
- looking wrong
adverb
- out of line, wrong
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪ/ / /əˈɹɑɪ/ / /ˈɔː.ɹi/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English awry, awrie. By surface analysis, a- + wry.
- Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.
“The frame was awry.”
- Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course
“There is something awry with this story.”
“It came inside 50 minutes and moments later Cavani should have had a 12th. Pogba and Shaw combined before the left-back’s cross teed up the striker but his radar was awry.”
adv
Etymology: From Middle English awry, awrie. By surface analysis, a- + wry.
- Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
- Perversely, improperly.