Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Off to one side; awry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- See
aglee .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Scotch Aside; askew.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Wrong in the sense of
awry ,askew ,amiss , ordistorted . - adjective Scotland
Wrong ;askew .
Etymologies
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Examples
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To this day I regret that my calculations went "agley"; but I was told that accommodation was not to be secured at Malta "for love or money," and so
Birds of the Rockies 1896
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Moviemakers have taken good advantage of the irony, suspense, and drama to be had when a best-laid plan seriously "gangs agley," especially in these 10 gripping, and entertaining, examples.
Dan Persons: ReelzChannel: Top Ten "Uh, That Didn't Go as Planned" Movies 2010
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Like the poet Burns said, “The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley”.
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Poor old Charity Spring's scheme for my undoing had gone agley altogether, now that it was known who I really was (thank God for Pinkerton and his memory!).
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Moviemakers have taken good advantage of the irony, suspense, and drama to be had when a best-laid plan seriously "gangs agley," especially in these 10 gripping, and entertaining, examples.
Dan Persons: ReelzChannel: Top Ten "Uh, That Didn't Go as Planned" Movies Dan Persons 2010
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Its hard to know how "gang aft agley" they really went since all of the legislators are masters of compromise and beholden to financial interests that have gone through the provisions with a fine tooth comb and a surgical pair of scissors.
Danny Schechter: As Financial Reform Goes Down to the Wire, Will There Be Change? 2010
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Its hard to know how "gang aft agley" they really went since all of the legislators are masters of compromise and beholden to financial interests that have gone through the provisions with a fine tooth comb and a surgical pair of scissors.
Danny Schechter: As Financial Reform Goes Down to the Wire, Will There Be Change? 2010
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She devises a clever plan for doing so, but things gang aft agley with plans like that, as we all know.
Archive 2010-01-17 Bill Crider 2010
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Moviemakers have taken good advantage of the irony, suspense, and drama to be had when a best-laid plan seriously "gangs agley," especially in these 10 gripping, and entertaining, examples.
ReelzChannel: Top Ten "Uh, That Didn't Go as Planned" Movies 2010
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I have a lot of things which need doing, so hopefully plans will not "gang agley".
Friday roundup katelnorth 2008
reesetee commented on the word agley
Off the right line; awry; wrong.
February 5, 2008
bard commented on the word agley
The best laid plans of mice and men aft gang agley" - often go astray, that is...
June 17, 2008