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1. puhekieltä Wrong in the sense of awry, askew, amiss, or distorted.

2. 1932, http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/page_rosewell.html Rosewell Page, The Iliads of the South: an epic of the War Between the States, Garrett and Massie, p. 165:

X tells of cavalry; of Sheridan, Hampton and Fitz Lee;

Of Early’s Valley march, that Sheridan long held agley!

3. (RQ:Wodehouse Offing)

4. 2002, (w), The Fiery Cross, http://books.google.com/books?id=NAHvT4UQjwgC&pg=PA29&dq=agley p. 29:

We meant to sail from Charleston, but things went agley there, and so we’re bound for Portsmouth now, as fast as we can make speed.

5. puhekieltä wrong Wrong; askew.

6. 1983, (w), ‘The Great Bear Cult’, Canongate 2012 (Every Short Story 1951-2012), p. 57:

But though the bear in the picture was a disguised man he appeared so naturally calm, so benignly strong, that beside him Pete … looked comparatively shifty and agley.

7. asquint; astray, off the straight

8. 1785, (w), “(w)”:

The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley

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