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