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amiss

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If the IRS were to discover something amiss, under the bill’s proposed statute of limitations it would be too late to act.

This is where the drugs and the violence come in, though for the majority of the four episodes sent for review, Kevin remains blissfully unaware that anything is amiss.

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Although the Yankees’ bats came alive against the struggling Minnesota Twins this week, something is amiss in New York that goes deeper than just sloppy fundamentals.

If the state population data is significantly different from projections, that could be a hint of something amiss.

Sensing something is amiss, Curdin travels to the remote mountain village nestled in the Swiss Alps.

Something is clearly amiss in the global antiquities market.

He did not suspect anything was amiss until he returned home that evening and found them gone.

They wonder what has gone wrong, they wonder what they have done amiss.

All of this happened in daylight, and controllers were aware that something was amiss.

There seems to be a prevalent feeling that something is amiss at Apple.

He saw in an instant that something was amiss, and drew from her a confession that her back was aching a little.

Although it is impossible, within the limits of this little volume, to give many hints upon riding, a few may not be amiss.

It seems to me, amongst the subjects treated of in my present work, that a few words on health will not come amiss.

But as the day wore on it became plain to everybody at Heston—to Roger first and foremost—that something was much amiss.

And as the days went on it grew plain to me that there was somewhat amiss about the court here.

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On this page you'll find 66 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to amiss, such as: awry, improper, untoward, bad, confused, and crooked.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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