Awry

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. 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.

Adj.	1.	awry - 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" Synonyms: askew, cockeyed, skew-whiff, wonky, lopsided
	2.	awry - not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine" Synonyms: amiss, haywire, wrong
Adv.	1.	awry - away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations" Synonyms: amiss
	2.	awry - turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry" Synonyms: askew, skew-whiff

aberrant, abroad, adrift, afield, agee, agee-jawed, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, aside, askance, askant, askewgee, aslant, asquint, astray, at fault, badly, beside the mark, cam, catawampous, catawamptious, cock-a-hoop, cockeyed, convulsed, corrupt, crookedly, deceptive, defective, delusive, deranged, deviant, deviational, deviative, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, distorted, disturbed, errant, erring, erroneous, erroneously, fallacious, false, faultful, faultily, faulty, flawed, haywire, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, in disorder, misplaced, not right, not true, obliquely, off, off the track, on the fritz, out, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, peccant, perturbed, perverse, perverted, roily, self-contradictory, shuffled, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slantways, slaunchways, squinting, straying, turbid, turbulent, unfactual, unfavorably, unorthodox, unproved, unsettled, untrue, untruly, upset, wamper-jawed, wide, wry, yaw-ways

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