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English
Adverb
aglee (comparative more aglee, superlative most aglee)
- Alternative spelling of agley
Anagrams
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Alternative forms
Etymology
a- + glee
Pronunciation
Adverb
aglee (not comparable)
- Awry, wrong; not as planned.
1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page iv. 36:And, at the moment of joining the car at the place appointed, a conviction seized me that my well-laid schemes had gone "a-gley".
- asquint, obliquely, off the straight
- irregular, of error, of moral obliquity
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