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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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"Awry" Quotes from Famous Books

... Kenwalk's soul Partook not with the poet's. Loveliest sights, Like music brightening those it fails to charm, Roused but his mirthful mood. To each that passed He tossed his jest: he scanned the labourer's task; Reviled the luckless boor that ploughed awry, And beat the smith that marred the horse's hoof: At times his fortunes thus he moralised: 'Here walk I, crownless king, and exiled man: My Mercian brother lists his sister's tongue: Say, lark! which lot is happiest?' Festive streets, Tapestries ...

— Legends of the Saxon Saints • Aubrey de Vere

... of his old parish of Thorpington Parva gave him a Ford car, and with this he scoured back areas for provisions and threaded his tin buggy in and out of columns of dusty infantry and clattering ammunition limbers, spectacles gleaming, cap slightly awry, while his batman (a wag) perched precariously a-top of a rocking pile of biscuit tins, cigarette cases and boxes of tinned fruit, and shouted after the fashion of railway porters, "By your leave! Fags for the firin' line. ...

— Punch, Volume 153, July 11, 1917 - Or the London Charivari. • Various

... leaden skies were suffused with a peculiar mist that made him see all objects in a distorted fashion. Everything was out of proportion. Some were too large and some too small. Either the world was awry or his own faculties had become discolored and disjointed. While his interest in his daily toil decreased and his thoughts were vague and distant, his curiosity, nevertheless, was keen and concentrated. He knew that something unusual was going to happen and nature ...

— The Masters of the Peaks - A Story of the Great North Woods • Joseph A. Altsheler

... not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turns awry And lose ...

— Shakspere, Personal Recollections • John A. Joyce

... its way, And from his shoulders by the sinews hung The dying hand. Then straight, the dart outwrung, His brother Numitor the barb let fly Full at AEneas. In his face he flung, But failed to smite. The weapon, turned awry, Missed the intended mark, ...

— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil

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