wry

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wry /rʌɪ/

▶adjective (wryer, wryest or wrier, wriest)

• 1 using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humour.

• 2 (of a person's face or features) twisted into an expression of disgust, disappointment, or annoyance.

• 3 bending or twisted to one side.

– derivatives
wryly adverb,
wryness noun.

– origin C16 (in the sense ‘contorted’): from OE wrīgian ‘tend, incline’, in ME ‘deviate, swerve, contort’.