wry
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹaɪ/
wry (comparative wryer, superlative wryest)
- Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
- 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, chapter 17:
- '"Why, you snivelling, wry-faced, puny villain," gasped old Lobbs.
- 1913, Victor Appleton, The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park, chapter 11:
- “Humph! Had to,” said Pep with a wry grimace.
- 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, chapter 17:
- Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
- 1871, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Haunted Baronet, chapter 6:
- "[T]he master says a wry word now and then; and so ye let your spirits go down, don't ye see, and all sorts o' fancies comes into your head."
- 1871, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, The Haunted Baronet, chapter 6:
- Twisted, bent, crooked.
- Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.
- 1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot, chapter 34:
- Catherine hath made a wry stitch in her broidery, when she was thinking of something else than her work.
- 1876, Walter Savage Landor, The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor, volume IV, Imaginary Conversations, Third Series: Dialogues of Literary Men, ch. 6—Milton and Andrew Marvel, page 155 (Google preview) ↗:
- . . . the wry rigour of our neighbours, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application.
- 1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Abbot, chapter 34:
- German: verdreht
- Russian: искажённый
- German: sarkastisch, ironisch
- Italian: sarcastico
- Russian: язвительный
wry (wries, present participle wrying; past and past participle wried)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To turn (away); to swerve or deviate.
- 1535, Thomas More, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, ch. 18:
- God pricketh them of his great goodness still. And the grief of this great pang pincheth them at the heart, and of wickedness they wry away.
- circa 1610 William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 5, scene 1:
- You married ones,
- If each of you should take this course, how many
- Must murder wives much better than themselves
- For wrying but a little!
- 1535, Thomas More, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation, ch. 18:
- (obsolete, transitive) To divert; to cause to turn away.
- (transitive) To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.).
- Russian: искажать
wry
- (regional) Distortion.
wry (wries, present participle wrying; past and past participle wried)
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