Dictionary Entry

awry

Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/ˈɔ.ɹi/Used In Literature ↓

Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.

In a Sentence

“The frame was awry.”

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Poetry examples for “awry”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Not tyrants fierce that unrepenting die,
Not Cynthia when her manteau's pinn'd awry,
E'er felt such rage, resentment, and despair,

But that thou would'st dissemble, when 'tis past.
She hath not trod awry, that doth deny it.
Such as confess have lost their good names by it.

The women and the men of garish nights,
Their eyes wine-weakened and their clothes awry,
Grotesques beneath the strong electric lights.

The nose half-thickly fleshed and half in point,
And lightly turned awry as out of joint;
The eyebrows pointing upward satyr-wise,

On stoic backs as plain as graveyard stones,
Which stand awry, being old and crooked bones,
An epitaph of poor dead men indeed.

Have struggled through its binding osier rods;
Headstone and half-sunk footstone lean awry,
Wanting the brick-work promised by-and-by;

eye!
Houses in four straight lines, not a single front awry;
You watch who crosses and gossips, who saunters, who hurries by;

And he is lean and he is sick,
His little body’s half awry
His ancles they are swoln and thick

Think Nature me a man of arms did make.
How far they shot awry! The true cause is,
Stella look'd on, and from her heav'nly face

The clothes that on my bed do lie
Always methink they lie awry.
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