📖 Definitions of "Wry"
noun
- 1
Distortion.
verb
- 1
To turn (away); to swerve or deviate.
- 2
To divert; to cause to turn away.
- 3
To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.).
adjective
- 1
Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
- 2
Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
- 3
Twisted, bent, crooked.
- 4
Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.
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