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in improper position; or in an unintended way

At that second place, as time wore on, I also picked them up from the bottom of the great cliff, when their escapes fell awfully awry.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

awry = in an unintended way

When Hitler rose to power in 1933, though, the painting business fell slightly awry.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

awry = in an unintended way

Your crown's awry; I'll mend it and then play.
William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra
She is wearing a T-shirt like the dwarf's and Viktor says this is the result of an importing ploy gone awry.
Don DeLillo -- Underworld
Then as though there was not enough trouble with the women of his house all awry, there was Wang Lung's youngest son.
Pearl S. Buck -- The Good Earth
A monument to kitsch gone woefully awry.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
I entered a scene that felt like a holiday party gone awry—a few bottles of champagne rested on one desk, surrounded by tiny paper cups.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
Avada — Harry launched himself across the floor and grabbed the Death Eater around the knees, causing him to topple and his aim to go awry.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
His mouth was twisted awry till it met his ears ... flakes of fire streamed from it.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
A pause in the wrong place, an intonation misunderstood, and a whole conversation went awry.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
Something definitely was awry.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
It may be unbalanced to fly out of England, but to stay away eight months argues that the heart is awry as well as the head.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End
Tears of rage that all his plans had gone awry.
Orson Scott Card -- Red Prophet
His tie was slightly awry, he kept biting his nails, those of one hand only, his right...... I needn't go on, need I?
Albert Camus -- The Plague
Her bonnet was awry; she was incomparably dowdy.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
He has lost his straw hat, his tie is awry, and his blue suit is dirty.
Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh
I want that gold ready when Gudgeon's plan goes awry.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
She doesn't care about the technology—she suspects that something is awry with my test results.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent
Somehow, my plan for last night had gone horribly awry, and I needed come to grips with the consequences.
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
Cinder bit back awry laugh.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder

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