amiss's Usage Examples:

The feds ignored the newcomers after a few looks, content to stroll and chat as if nothing were amiss anywhere.

"Finally, he reproaches Chretien with having told the story amiss, whereas Kiot, the Provençal, whose version Wolfram was following, had told it aright from beginning to end.

Considerable interest attaches to his early companionship with Wilhelm Neumann and certain others, among whom were the writer Karl August Varnhagen von Ense and the poet Adelbert von Chamisso.

Carmen shrugged off an uncomfortable feeling that something was amiss.

wolfish grin " I want to be a model lover!Finally, he reproaches Chretien with having told the story amiss, whereas Kiot, the Provençal, whose version Wolfram was following, had told it aright from beginning to end.

If Senor Medina had determined on his own that there was something amiss between his son and his wife, it would have to have been because Alex was treating her so well.

A parrot on the shoulder never goes amiss.

Alex didn't look at Carmen, which was her first inkling that something was amiss.

As no blood is passing into the skin, the parts look like tallow, and thus attract the attention of the companions of the frost-bitten man, who perhaps has no thought of there being anything amiss.

To a casual passerby, glancing down from one of the slick new bridges on the Island Highway, nothing seems amiss.

Thirdly, the induction is amiss which infers the principles of sciences by simple enumeration, and does not, as it ought, employ exclusions and solutions (or separations) of nature.

To what extent or in how many cases what is called illness is due to moral springs having been used amiss, whether by being over-used, or by not being used sufficiently, we hardly at all know, and we too little inquire.

Synonyms:

nonfunctional, haywire, wrong, awry, malfunctioning,

Antonyms:

right, just, moral, straight, functioning,