as in uneven
inclined or twisted to one side
the shutters that still remained on the run-down old house were all awry
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as in wrong
off the desired or intended path or course
their plans for an outdoor wedding went awry when they got a freak hailstorm the night before
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Adjective
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Hospital finances are strikingly uneven across the industry.Maya Goldman, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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Progress has also been uneven across geographies and sectors.Sumant Sinha, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Adverb
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The Iran nuclear deal's impact is very important in terms of what is going right and what is going wrong in the Syrian crisis.Jeffrey Stacey, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2015
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According to Gallup, companies get executive hires wrong an astounding 82% of the time.Rhett Power, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
Adverb
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Boeing bungled its recent mission to ferry astronauts to the ISS so badly that SpaceX has at least a temporary monopoly over astronaut launches from American soil.Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Jourdain needed the win badly and got the $50,000 bonus.Brian Mazique, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Blue Water Creek cuts a crooked path through a broad valley, its waters still pristine.Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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This was made possible by his crooked judge father (M. Emmet Walsh, in his final role).Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2024
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And so, in his own oblique way, Narkevičius crafts a deeply personal and, relatively speaking, straightforward piece that bides its time until,eventually, its pull becomes inescapable.Siddhant Adlakha, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024
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The left lobe of the heart is called Sputnik Planitia and was formed from an oblique impact from a 400-mile-wide planetary body around ten million years ago.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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“Awry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/awry. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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