Awry

Etymology
From a (preposition) + wry.

Adverb

 * 1) Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
 * 2) Perversely, improperly.

Adjective

 * 1) Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place.
 * The frame was awry.
 * 1) Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss.
 * There is something awry with this story.

Synonyms

 * wonky

Thesaurus
aberrant; abroad; adrift; afield; agee; agee-jawed; all abroad; all off; all wrong; amiss; aside; askance; askant; askew; askewgee; aslant; asquint; astray; at fault; badly; beside the mark; cam; catawampous; catawamptious; cock-a-hoop; cockeyed; convulsed; corrupt; crooked; crookedly; deceptive; defective; delusive; deranged; deviant; deviational; deviative; disarranged; discomfited; discomposed; disconcerted; dislocated; disordered; disorderly; disorganized; distorted; disturbed; errant; erring; erroneous; erroneously; fallacious; false; faultful; faultily; faulty; flawed; haywire; heretical; heterodox; illogical; illusory; in disorder; misplaced; not right; not true; obliquely; off; off the track; on the fritz; out; out of gear; out of joint; out of kelter; out of kilter; out of order; out of place; out of tune; out of whack; peccant; perturbed; perverse; perverted; roily; self-contradictory; shuffled; skew; skew-jawed; skewed; slantways; slaunchways; squinting; straying; turbid; turbulent; unfactual; unfavorably; unorthodox; unproved; unsettled; untrue; untruly; upset; wamper-jawed; wide; wrong; wry; yaw-ways

Adverb

 * Bulgarian: накриво,
 * Finnish:, vinoon, kierossa,
 * French:, de guingois


 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:, ,


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:


 * Polish: ,
 * Russian: неправильно (n'eprávil'no), невернo (n'ev'érno), превратно (pr'evrátno)

Adjective

 * Bulgarian:, изкривен
 * Finnish: ,
 * Polish:


 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish: torcido


 * Bulgarian: погрешен, неправилен
 * Finnish:
 * Polish:


 * Russian: неправильный (n'eprávil'nyj), неверный (n'ev'érnyj), искажённый (iskažónnyj), превратный (pr'evrátnyj)

Anagrams

 * wary
 * wray