Usually means: Plans gone wrong; unexpectedly deviated.
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  9. awry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  17. awry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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adverb:  Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
adverb:  Perversely, improperly.
adjective:  Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.
adjective:  (figurative) Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course

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