awry

[uh-rahy] /əˈraɪ/

adverb, adjective

with a turn or twist to one side; askew:

to glance or look awry.

away from the expected or proper direction; amiss; wrong:

Our plans went awry.

Origin

1325-75; Middle English on wry. See a-¹, wry

Examples from the web for awry

This happens when Judy's elaborate plans for the best summer ever go awry, as they often do for the third-grader.
Ironically, his experiment goes awry and the pile of goop starts terrorizing downtown Oslo instead.
If he breaks out of that, then it'll be a sign that something is badly awry in the world.
Consider this twist an interesting experiment gone slightly awry, and move on.
Just looking for a little support in a world gone awry.
Researchers are only beginning to get a sense of the range of things that can go awry in cloning.
At least one leukaemia is known to be caused by bone marrow stem cells gone awry.
But something is awry in the land of mass luxury.
Conventional wisdom always had it that ageing was a function of normal maintenance mechanisms going awry as you got older.
At first, it didn't appear that anything went awry.

British Dictionary definitions for awry

/əˈraɪ/

adverb, adjective (postpositive)

with a slant or twist to one side; askew

away from the appropriate or right course; amiss

Word Origin

C14 on wry; see a-², wry

Word Origin and History for awry

adv.

late 14c., "crooked, askew," from a- (1) "on" + wry (adj.).