Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a wry, distorted, or awkward manner.
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- adverb In a
wry manner.
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- adverb in a wry manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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According to Albert Camus it is "a way of getting the answer yes without having asked a clear question" - which may explain why we usually use the term wryly, or sarcastically these days.
Evening Standard - Home Richard Godwin 2012
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Like his father and several other ancestors, Churchill wrestled with bouts of depression, which he referred to wryly as "the black dog."
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Like his father and several other ancestors, Churchill wrestled with bouts of depression, which he referred to wryly as "the black dog."
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Although a formal bid never materialized, some investors may recall wryly that Sir Philip was mooting an offer of
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Here's our favorite, and we use that word wryly: In 2008, the average price for one square foot of space in a top-notch Class A Manhattan office building was a bubblicious
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"I would flirt with him," she recalls wryly, her come-hither eyes and heart-shaped lips still echoing the days when she was decreed "Rock's Venus" by Rolling Stone.
Vox Verax 2008
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"I would flirt with him," she recalls wryly, her come-hither eyes and heart-shaped lips still echoing the days when she was decreed Rock's Venus by Rolling Stone.
Taipei Times 2008
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There's much to admire here: the sheer energy of the rhetoric of enumeration; the way the entirely man-made landscape alongside becomes the objective correlative for the consumer culture which has spawned it; the accumulating rhythmic patterns shaking out a kind of wryly humorous verbal jazz—I especially like the last sentence for that.
The Lay of the Land Bruce Schauble 2006
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There's much to admire here: the sheer energy of the rhetoric of enumeration; the way the entirely man-made landscape alongside becomes the objective correlative for the consumer culture which has spawned it; the accumulating rhythmic patterns shaking out a kind of wryly humorous verbal jazz—I especially like the last sentence for that.
Archive 2006-12-01 Bruce Schauble 2006
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As Ahlstrom wryly observed, these civic embodiments of religious sentiment were not forced upon an unresponsive people by a few pious political leaders.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
dmcleod0914 commented on the word wryly
"He glanced down at me from the corner of his eye, smiling wryly."- Stephanie Meyer, Twilight, pg.103
November 29, 2010