(adv. & a.) Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a visit to the camp in 1966, Joan Didion described Sandperl as a man who looked as if he had, "all his life, followed some imperceptibly but fatally askew rainbow" and the institute as naive.
(2) John Radcliffe, Richard Mead, Anthony Askew, David Pitcairn and Matthew Baillie.
(3) I ask people whom they’re voting for; several say Al Murray or Nigel Askew, “to split the vote”.
(4) Askew said it was uncertain what would happen after the change comes in.
(5) When he reads, he needs to look slightly to one side of the paper in order to focus; when speaking to an audience or into a camera lens, he must remember to correct what would normally be an automatic tendency to look slightly askew in order to see clearly with his good eye.
(6) Loosely adapted from Dostoyevsky's novella, Ayoade's follow-up to Submarine is an absurdist, timeless, placeless piece, European-influenced but with a very askew, British sense of humour, plus cameos from Chris Morris, Tim Key and Paddy Considine.
(7) The layered axisymmetric model presented by Askew and Mow (J. biomech.
(8) I shot him a middle finger and pedaled away, my right knee bleeding, my handlebars askew.
(9) For Askew’s clients completing on a second home or development opportunity ahead of April could mean saving in the region of £43,000, he said.
(10) Lespert's film ends with Yves stumbling on to the runway, mouth slumped askew, eyes lost behind his glasses, his movement unsteady and uncertain.
(11) *** Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nigel Farage (top, centre) and Ukip have targeted the South Thanet seat, where their rivals include (clockwise from top right) real pub landlord Nigel Askew for the Reality Party (led by former Happy Monday Bez; top, left), the Prophet Zebadiah of the Al-Zebabist Nation of Ooog, TV’s Pub Landlord Al Murray and Labour’s Will Scobie.
(12) Teymourian has a sight of goal from 20 yards but his radar is askew.
(13) You know, one of the ones where the local formal economy is so askew that supermarkets are full of fruit imported from Europe.
(14) Chris Askew, chief executive of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said: "This is good news for patients because the Cancer Drugs Fund remains the only way they can access expensive but effective cancer treatments that Nice cannot approve.
(15) I think their judgment is askew but if they think I’m a threat to the Westminster establishment like Guy Fawkes, they are right.
(16) They get to live as human beings, while this — this is for pigs.” In Cando’s community, where shanties display identical wooden walls and shiny white iron roofs, his house sticks out, looking askew and incomplete.
(17) In central London, Cory Askew, the area director for estate agency Chestertons, said there had been “a huge rise in activity and offers” since the chancellor made the announcement in November.
(18) The PR firms coined the “Hopenhagen” slogan – a framing that went askew when the summit collapsed.
(19) In his place, the ghost of Radovan Karadžić, the former high priest of “ethnic cleansing” who had haunted the Balkans for a decade, rematerialised on a Belgrade roadside as a flustered old man, his straw hat askew, clutching a white plastic bag to his breast.
(20) Gary Cahill's chip did not appear to present a problem but Guy Demel contrived to create a big one, when his attempt to get the ball back to Jussi Jaaskelainen with his thigh went askew.
Awry
Definition:
(adv. & a.) 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.
(adv. & a.) Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hester also pledged that customers from other banks will be repaid for 'knock-on' costs after they were left out of pocket by an IT failure that sent 20m transactions awry.
(2) The Boaty McBoatface saga is not the first time online polls have gone awry.
(3) This is supposed to "empower" them and make it much easier for them to be held to account when budgets go awry, as they have a habit of doing in defence.
(4) In a more applied sense, such knowledge may also provide a rational approach to controlling metabolic disease syndromes related to adipogenesis gone awry such as obesity-associated diabetes and cachexia.
(5) Informing the patient about a procedure that went awry can help avoid unnecessary legal procedures.
(6) Unless the polls are seriously awry, that seems unlikely.
(7) Things looked promising when Blackpool began the season brightly and remained in the top four until November but then it started to go awry in December.
(8) 11.23am BST It looks like the Ukranian attempt to reassert control in Slavyansk has gone awry, with some troops going over to the pro-Russian side.
(9) Anthony Bosch – who choked back tears in court and said the clinic was a legitimate business gone awry – sought a more lenient term because of his cooperation in the investigation, but US District Judge Darrin Gayles refused.
(10) This found its personification in the disappointing Ross Barkley, whose burst from near his area before an awry pass was indicative of his contribution throughout.
(11) A subtle operational problem with most vapor stripping techniques is that the contents of the trap are consumed with one analysis; if anything goes awry, the analysis of that trapped sample cannot be repeated.
(12) If you study that history as I have, you’ll realize the stakes for Langley bosses are always highest when programs have gone awry or legacies hang in the balance.
(13) Sleep, a vital ingredient in life, is often taken for granted until something goes awry and sleep no longer comes easily.
(14) It was higher up the hierarchy where things went awry.
(15) In the cold war we were not contemplating how a cyber-attack might go awry.
(16) She had her first intimation that something was awry with the 20th century when she could no longer see the pistons driving the wheels on locomotives because, with the arrival of streamlining, they "had skirts on".
(17) Then things went awry, not only on the pitch, but on the Juve bench.
(18) Hull’s only creative outlet was Snodgrass and passes soon began to go awry for Mike Phelan’s side.
(19) When this carefully orchestrated and regulated cell control process goes awry because one or more of the proteins in the sequence has been altered by a mutated gene, the cell divides in an uncontrolled manner and malignancy results.
(20) 'In a musical sense, it seemed like all the good intentions had gone awry, very quickly.