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wry

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1. wry - Noun

2. wry - Adjective

3. wry - Verb

5. wry - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

To cover.

Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.

Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words.

Wrested; perverted.

To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.

To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.

To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Do I want you to talk to me, old friend? Do I need your reminders, your wry confirmation that faith is for fools? Steven Erikson

This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it. Diana Gabaldon

He liked the style, that wry gallows humor armed with the semblance of omniscience; a most serviceable style it was, the dialect of the initiated, protecting them from their disillusionments, their fears, their well-concealed childish hopes. Imre Kertész

My father had a dark glimmer in his eye as he moved behind her. "Old?” He spoke in a low voice as he began to rub her shoulders again. "Woman, I have a mind to prove you wrong.” She smiled a wry smile. "Sir, I have a mind to let you.”. Patrick Rothfuss

Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising. Tom Bodett

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. Ken Follett

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