awry

Tackling it in real time in the middle of a political knife fight is almost certainly going to go awry.

Right off the bat, papyrologist Brice C. Jones noted that something was awry.

Or, after a surprise party greeting for Gloria goes awry, “Just a thought: maybe we should stop doing these.”

There are technical difficulties at the funeral home and things go awry.

But it quickly became a text-book case of marketing gone awry.

In cases where something goes awry in this process, other structures in the brain are affected, and ASDs may result.

She cried out as she did so, and then rising with some difficulty, immediately sat down again with her face awry.

For everything which goes awry she has this answer: "Well, you would get up so early!"

That complacent remark struck the ear awry, like the whine of a deacons report at a Sunday-school convention.

Hotspur, after a mad gallop, had raced back riderless to the stables, stirrups dangling and saddle awry.

I follow, but am not so lucky, for the next wave catches the boat awry and sluices me from neck to heel!