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 Translation for 'awry' from English to Spanish
ADJ   awry | more awry | most awry
SYNO amiss | askew | awry | ...
torcido {adj}awry [askew, skewed]
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oblicuamente {adv}awry
ir malto be awry [fig.] [wrong, amiss]
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Usage Examples English
  • In 1995, Powers published the Pygmalion story "Galatea 2.2" about an artificial intelligence experiment gone awry. and was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist.
  • As Thanksgiving Day approaches, it appears that everyone has plans that are about to go awry, in more ways than one.
  • Secondary palate development begins in the sixth week of pregnancy and can lead to cleft palate when development goes awry.
  • The plans of the Touel'alfar go awry due to Aydrian's own arrogance, cultivated by a dark force.
  • They blow the safe to get at the $250,000 inside, but the job goes awry. During their escape, Johnny and Roger kill a law-enforcement official.

  • Excited about the grandson's visit, an elderly couple plan to cook chicken curry for dinner. But, things go awry when the chicken goes missing.
  • According to Michael Nordine of "IndieWire", the comedy that he seen was "awry".
  • For ill can aim the gun that bends awry.
  • Chuck must save Christmas, after using a choice that goes awry.
  • Cathy's preparations for an idyllic, romantic vacation with her boyfriend, Irving, go awry.

  • Shivaji, a taxi driver, has to arrange money for his niece's surgery. Things go awry when he gets entangled in a web of deceit.
  • Note: After the amulet goes awry, Anna and Elsa are mentioned.
  • A man tries to fake an accident in order to claim insurance money, but things soon go awry.
  • There seems to mismatch of reels as halfway through the film the story seems to go awry.
  • A regeneration experiment on a severed arm goes awry, turning the limb into a murderous, reptilian creature.

  • It was satirized as the quintessential school play gone horribly awry in "Shivering Shakespeare", a 1930 Little Rascals short by Hal Roach.
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