Sound: /əˈɹai/
awry, adverb and
adjective. Crookedly, askew; look awry
look askance (literally and figuratively); amiss, improperly; go, run, tread awry do wrong; crooked
(literally and figuratively).
In a sentence: “After his mistake,
the project went awry.”
This word is pronounced differently than one might think at first. It’s not
/əɹi/,
but /əˈɹai/!
In short, it means crooked, twisted, improperly, bad etc. The word is a
combination of the proposition a and the word wry, which means:
wry, adjective. Distorted, turned to one side, skew (wry face, mouth grimace expressing
disgust).
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