awry vs contrary

awry

adv
  • Perversely, improperly. 

  • Obliquely, crookedly; askew. 

adj
  • Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course 

  • Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry. 

contrary

adv
  • Contrarily 

noun
  • One of a pair of propositions that cannot both be simultaneously true, though they may both be false. 

  • The opposite. 

adj
  • Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse. 

  • Opposed; contradictory; inconsistent. 

  • Given to opposition; perverse; wayward. 

How often have the words awry and contrary occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )