Definitions for wry

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Spelling: [rahy]
IPA: /raɪ/

Wry is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 10 anagrams from letters in wry (rwy).

Definitions for wry

adjective

  1. produced by a distortion or lopsidedness of the facial features:
  2. abnormally bent or turned to one side; twisted; crooked:
  3. devious in course or purpose; misdirected.
  4. contrary; perverse.
  5. distorted or perverted, as in meaning.
  6. bitterly or disdainfully ironic or amusing:

Origin of wry

1515-25; adj. use of wry to twist, Middle English wryen, Old English wrīgian to go, strive, tend, swerve; cognate with Dutch wrijgen to twist; akin to Old English wrigels, Latin rīcula veil,

Examples for wry

But Beard was, as Beard would have put it, "wry," which is the word people like Beard use when they mean funny.

"She is very like a boiled sole," answered the Vicomte, with a wry face.

I looked at parts of it," he says, adding with wry self-deprecation, "I didn't see much benefit in comparing myself to Marlon.

Making sense of her life on the page, deploying raw emotion alongside humor and wry mischief, has long been a Bechdel pursuit.

Wilding looked at Trenchard, who shrugged his shoulders and made a wry face.

Once he raised his head for a moment, while his lips were fixed in a wry smile.

"Oh, I'll apologize," he said with a wry smile of discomfiture.

Her wry, progressive grandmother Oleanna Redwyne (Diana Rigg)—the real power behind the House Tyrell.

The quick-cut trailer suggests a soft-core romp with dramatic intrigue and wry one-liners.

"I've had vague promises from Wilcox," Sira said, with a wry smile.

Word Value for wry
Scrable

9

Words with friends

8

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