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a⋅wry

  [uh-rahy]
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–adverb, adjective
1. with a turn or twist to one side; askew: to glance or look awry.
2. away from the expected or proper direction; amiss; wrong: Our plans went awry.
Origin:
1325–75; ME on wry. See a- 1 , wry
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a·wry   (ə-rī')   
adv.  
  1. In a position that is turned or twisted toward one side; askew.
  2. Away from the correct course; amiss. See Synonyms at amiss.
a·wry' adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Awry

A*wry"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + wry.]

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. "Your crown's awry." --Shak.

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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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awry 
c.1375, "crooked, askew," from a- (1) "on" + wry (q.v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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