(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.
Wonky
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
(2) Violet is the wonky queen bee of the sorority girls.
(3) The defender was under no pressure when he ran on to the ball on the edge of his own area, yet he slashed at it in a wild panic – and at a wonky angle – sending the ball spinning past his bewildered goalkeeper.
(4) Maybe any choice of successor – wonky or shrewd – – if, bizarrely, that is thought to be necessary – will set a revised course.
(5) From the drifts of waxy, geometric paper leaves on the floor, to the dappled lighting; from the wonky litter bin, to the library table as the room's centrepiece; Boyce's room is both impressive and affecting.
(6) A topic many had dismissed as boring and wonky has proved more controversial than Janet Jackson’s nipple – the singer’s accidental exposure during the Super Bowl in 2004 triggered a then record 1.4m comments to the FCC.
(7) It sounds boring and wonky, but amounts to a situation in which, as the former Treasury advisor Jonathan Portes wrote last week , “owners of grand and very valuable properties pay little more than those in humbler abodes”.
(8) The speechwriter, Michael Cohen : 'Forget the extraneous wonky arguments of Denver' michael cohen Photograph: Guardian So, after what has been dubbed by the news media as the single most catastrophic, calamitous, Hindenburg-esque debate disaster in American political history, the question for Barack Obama is how does he avoid making the same mistakes again?
(9) This phenotype, which we term 'wonky', is due to hypomyelination in the CNS, and not to involvement of the immune system.
(10) Barmy scale, wonky lines, clashing colours, misspelt words (well, it makes them fit) all put together to create an irresistible command to buy, eat or do everything that the seaside has to offer.
(11) "I see him," says Anne Chisholm, "in a battered dark grey suit, probably from M&S, a striped shirt, collar a bit wonky.
(12) So what else about the wonky way the world generates wealth is still in need of reform?
(13) The local football club, Nacional, was supposed to be playing in the new stadium, but they are having to make do with a municipal ground with two open ends, missing floodlight bulbs and a hand-operated scoreboard with wonky numbers.
(14) The wonky-legged genius was then controversially not suspended for the final (some bonus detail here ), basically because the Brazil FA fixed the disciplinary panel hearing.
(15) An hour gone and this is a very wonky debate, both candidates keeping it very close.
(16) For what elevates The Ladykillers way above panto predictability is that it operates slightly off-centre; it takes its cue from its heroine (christened Mrs Lopsided), rattling about in her wonky house, perched by the railway sidings.
(17) Using abortion and gay marriage against Bush and Co Hillary being Hillary: Clinton flaunts wonky side at Washington panel Read more Establishment-backed candidates-in-waiting like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have sought to avoid discussing reproductive rights and same-sex marriage, as the party struggles to make inroads with both young and female voters.
(18) Americans like their pop stars to be just so; the British like theirs to be a bit wonky.
(19) The trimmings are shabby and the pebbly bottomed pool is huge, 140m by 40m – it easily accommodates two wonky-tiered fountains in that familiar pool-paint blue.
(20) 8.18pm BST Paul scowls at Kim's wonky pastry tomb to the dead pig.