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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. humorously sarcastic or mocking;
- Example: "dry humor"
- Example: "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"
- Example: "an ironic novel"
- Example: "an ironical smile"
- Example: "with a wry Scottish wit"
[syn: dry, ironic, ironical, wry]

2. bent to one side;
- Example: "a wry neck"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wry \Wry\, a. [Compar. Wrier; superl. Wriest.] [Akin to OE. wrien to twist, to bend, AS. wrigian to tend towards, to drive.] [1913 Webster] 1. Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words. [1913 Webster] Not according to the wry rigor of our neighbors, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application. --Landor. [1913 Webster] 3. Wrested; perverted. [1913 Webster] He . . . puts a wry sense upon Protestant writers. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster] Wry face, a distortion of the countenance indicating impatience, disgust, or discomfort; a grimace. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wry \Wry\, v. t. [AS. wre['o]n.] To cover. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Wrie you in that mantle. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wry \Wry\, v. i. 1. To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind. [1913 Webster] 2. To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve. [1913 Webster] This Phebus gan awayward for to wryen. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] How many Must murder wives much better than themselves For wrying but a little! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wry \Wry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wried; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrying.] [OE. wrien. See Wry, a.] To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] Guests by hundreds, not one caring If the dear host's neck were wried. --R. Browning. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wry adj 1: humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit" [syn: dry, ironic, ironical, wry] 2: bent to one side; "a wry neck"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

23 Moby Thesaurus words for "wry": agee, agee-jawed, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, awry, catawampous, catawamptious, cockeyed, crooked, cynical, ironic, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slaunchways, squinting, wamper-jawed, wrest, wring, yaw-ways