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wry
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  • 'Ah, well, you've put your finger on the problem,' said Mr Weasley with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • Probably exhausted from resenting me so much, I think with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • He gave me a wry look.†   (source)
  • Cole asked with a wry smile, as he sharpened a sapling for a hot-dog stick.†   (source)
  • Miss Perumal gave him a wry look.†   (source)
  • The pipe stem anchored a wry grin.†   (source)
  • "They try to all the time," Williams said with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • This wry tone was strange for Ty, but I let it pass for the time being.†   (source)
  • An expression of surprise crossed his features when he beheld her in her finery, but it quickly melted into a wry grin as he looked toward his father.†   (source)
  • Vittoria felt a wry pleasure inside.†   (source)
  • You know, one of those wry, silent chuckles, accompanied by a rueful shake of the head.†   (source)
  • Once in a while he'd come out with some hoary maxim, served up with a wry irony that did nothing to reduce the boredom quotient; or else he'd say, "I coulda been a contender," then glare meaningfully at the class as if there was some deeper-than-deep point they were all supposed to get.†   (source)
  • Guo Ming smiled wryly.†   (source)
  • Spencer twisted the comers of her mouth up wryly.†   (source)
  • A wry and twinkling relative carving up the bird.†   (source)
  • "Even though you were clearly not doing your part in the clover search, perv," she said wryly, "I really would give you this clover.†   (source)
  • He gave Thomas a wry grin.†   (source)
  • "An albino," Theon Greyjoy said with wry amusement.†   (source)
  • He gives me a wry look before departing downstairs to join St. Clair in the head's office.†   (source)
  • "If the morphlings have left me anything to work with," he says wryly.†   (source)
  • He smiled wryly at Drew "Okay.†   (source)
  • Making a wry mouth, she removed her kerchief and drew out the other two pins.†   (source)
  • An odd, dry name for a rusty, wry little redhead: it suited her.†   (source)
  • Chhongba Sherpa, a wry, thoughtful man who had joined our expedition as Base Camp cook, offered to arrange a meeting with the rimpoche-"the head lama of all Nepal," Chhongba explained, "a very holy man. just yesterday he has finished a long period of silent meditation-for the past three months he has not spoken.†   (source)
  • The dwarf smiled wryly.†   (source)
  • He could be a calm, undemanding figure in the classroom, but when the right set of competitive stimuli was applied (like electrodes to the temples of Frankenstein's monster, Jack thought wryly), he could become a juggernaut.†   (source)
  • She offered a wry smile.†   (source)
  • Not, however," he said wryly, "without this token of my stupidity.†   (source)
  • "Well, I'm popular with the general public," she said wryly.†   (source)
  • He's pictured standing on the fifty-yard line of the football field, wearing his letterman jacket, his arms crossed, his right foot resting atop a football, a wry, confident grin on his face.†   (source)
  • "Don't worry — I don't understand any of it," I said wryly.†   (source)
  • Despite his sense of humor and his often wry look at higher authority, he was a very fine SEAL commander, and hie presided over one of the best fighting platoons in the entire U.S. Navy.†   (source)
  • Irony—sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes wry or perplexing—provides additional richness to the literary dish.†   (source)
  • He was wry.†   (source)
  • Grey's men," he said, wryly.†   (source)
  • She attempted a wry smile, but it failed miserably.†   (source)
  • The well-made faces and wry looks.†   (source)
  • Those of my clan well, we feed in other ways, Scatty said with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • When she blinked at him, she saw a wry grin spread across his face.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps there's a ghost on the Hindenburg, too," she said wryly.†   (source)
  • "Ali," Grandfather says, raising his eyebrows in a wry expression.†   (source)
  • The sound of it tugged one corner of his mouth into a wry smile as he sank into the deep chair in front of the fire.†   (source)
  • He wrote for a humor website based in Brooklyn, a decent one, and his contributor photo revealed him to be a scrawny guy with dark-framed glasses and an uncomfortable amount of thick black hair, wearing a wry grin and a T-shirt for a band called the Bingos.†   (source)
  • As he looked from Wells to Bellamy, a wry smile flickered across his face.†   (source)
  • She smiled wryly, a crisscross of wrinkles in the old face.†   (source)
  • The sharp, wry figure of Mrs. Bannister, the night nurse, scurried into view.†   (source)
  • "Yes," Abby replied wryly, tapping her cell phone against her head.†   (source)
  • Vanger gave him a wry smile.†   (source)
  • Athena smiled wryly.†   (source)
  • Kilgas looked at him, a wry expression on his ruddycheeked face.†   (source)
  • Mom smiled wryly.†   (source)
  • She grinned wryly and looked at him.†   (source)
  • Now, now, the waiting, the holding of dank sour breath in the wry tissues of her childlike body.†   (source)
  • You're screwed, Elias, a wry voice tells me.†   (source)
  • David took him in: tall and lanky, wearing a clean white shirt with the sleeves rolled up and flashing a wry, crooked smile at the audience.†   (source)
  • Again he thought wryly of the Threarah.†   (source)
  • A wry smile spreads on his face: he is about to say something clever.†   (source)
  • "Well, thanks for following me—I think," I said, with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • He has a kind of wry, ironic charm that is utterly winning.†   (source)
  • She had gone to art school, lived off campus, was wry and curious and kind and superhip, and one day when I had admired the box, she gave it to me.†   (source)
  • "Not what you expected?" he asked in wry tones.†   (source)
  • Tyler gave his former boss a wry look.†   (source)
  • Miss Moore gives a wry smile.†   (source)
  • The other young Pimas, when they broke their usual stoicism, liked to rib Ira in the wry, almost mocking style that flavored their culture's humor.†   (source)
  • Though I say it as shouldn't, you may think,' he added with a wry smile, seeing Frodo's glance.†   (source)
  • An appropriate response, I think wryly.†   (source)
  • 'At least we found out what he dreams about,' Dunbar observed wryly.†   (source)
  • "Thank you, Jesus," he says to her with a wry smile as he makes his way toward the back bedroom.†   (source)
  • "To be honest," says Luke, with a wry smile, "I'm not sure I'll be representing Flagstaff Life any more after this."†   (source)
  • "We don't do a good job of dressing as civilians," Mebratu said, wryly.†   (source)
  • I smiled wryly.†   (source)
  • His sword, he thought wryly.†   (source)
  • I smiled wryly.†   (source)
  • "Now I will be glad if I can go to the cottage this summer," he said, and there was a wry smile on his lips.†   (source)
  • "Probably wouldn't take that long," Judge Atlee observed wryly.†   (source)
  • Anaander Mianaai smiled wryly.†   (source)
  • I saw the man's face relax as he gave me a wry smile.†   (source)
  • He gave a wry grin.†   (source)
  • His smile was wry and not terribly amused.†   (source)
  • After noting in one entry that his horse had overfed on grass and water, Adams speculated wryly, "My biographer will scarcely introduce my little mare and her adventures."†   (source)
  • It was congenital, he apologized, eyes wryly aglint behind his gold-rim specs.†   (source)
  • She gave a wry grin.†   (source)
  • The man nodded and gave a wry smirk.†   (source)
  • He gave me a wry smile.†   (source)
  • "I can now retire from politics after having 'Happy Birthday' sung to me in such a sweet and wholesome way," the president speaks into the microphone, his wry delivery suggesting that he is above such sexual shenanigans.†   (source)
  • It's hard to see his expression in the dark, but his voice sounds both skeptical and wry.†   (source)
  • A wry little smile lit her face.†   (source)
  • Mike Monsky smiled a small, wry smile.†   (source)
  • And he points to my folding chair with a silencing finger and an almost wry smile, and it's all I can do but sit down again as they stomp and leap their way into the water.†   (source)
  • "Well, it's original all right," Mrs. de Villiers says wryly.†   (source)
  • "Shut yer mouth, orc dog," Biggrin commanded, looking to the verbeeg that had threatened the runner and smiling wryly.†   (source)
  • Longstreet grinned wryly.†   (source)
  • She smiled that wry smile again.†   (source)
  • Telling us about it later, Pa said with a wry smile, "I've heard of people getting hit on the head hard enough to break both ankles—but not their big toe."†   (source)
  • He is somewhat shy and talks quietly, but when you listen closely, you realize he's constantly making wry, self-deprecating observations.†   (source)
  • "We're wry pleased to have this opportunity to interview you.†   (source)
  • GUIL (wry, gentle): Thank you; well let you know.†   (source)
  • The newsman paused, looked up, and half-smiled in wry amusement at this complexity.†   (source)
  • Until recently, his faith in Karellen had kept him free from doubts; but now, he thought a little wryly, the protests of the Freedom League were beginning to have their effect upon him.†   (source)
  • Metzger flashed her a big wry couple rows of teeth.†   (source)
  • The shortish man with the wry ruddy sardonic face could only be John Cheever.†   (source)
  • ANNIE [WRY]: Well, some have the luck of the Irish, some do not.†   (source)
  • He smiled, wryly.†   (source)
  • He gave me a wry smile.†   (source)
  • ESTRAGON: (shrugging his shoulders, wry face.†   (source)
  • With wry humor, Herb began referring to her as "the Madam" in delicately mocking tribute to her authoritarian nature.†   (source)
  • Carol was always a kind of high priestess in our family circle, a wry and demonstrative oracle who read eastern philosophy with sophomoric intensity and who tried to implement the lessons she derived from her readings in our household.†   (source)
  • Adam made a wry grimace.†   (source)
  • He smiled wryly.†   (source)
  • I grinned wryly.†   (source)
  • "Well, well," said Leamas with a wry smile, "you must be quite a big wheel.†   (source)
  • Just incomplete some way, like a chicken that comes out of the shell with a wry neck and grows on up like that.†   (source)
  • John Osborne smiled wryly.†   (source)
  • He smiled wryly.†   (source)
  • JAMIE Wryly.†   (source)
  • It was an inward sound she gavenow it came again-of such wholehearted and fateful concurrence with the thing dreamed, that Nina and Jinny Love took hands and made wry faces at each other.†   (source)
  • West smiled wryly: "You wouldn't understand, Ben.†   (source)
  • "And now, I suppose," he continued with a wry smile, "you have something you want to ask me?"†   (source)
  • " "Was there more to discuss?" says Peeta wryly.†   (source)
  • He glanced down at me from the corner of his eye, smiling wryly.†   (source)
  • I didn't know the leader of Amity would be so curt," says Tori with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • 'Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters,' said Sirius with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • "Actually, there is," Salander said, with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • He pulls away first and gives me a wry smile.†   (source)
  • Him being your cousin and all," she says wryly.†   (source)
  • "I'm absolutely certain he'll mention it himself," Edward said in a wry tone.†   (source)
  • Deoch nodded slowly to himself, his smile going a little wry.†   (source)
  • "You should have seen me, Annemarie," she said, shaking her head with a wry look.†   (source)
  • Angela threw back her head and laughed wryly.†   (source)
  • The Janet with the high cheekbones and wry voice.†   (source)
  • He looked at me for a long time, his smile wry, his eyes twinkling.†   (source)
  • "I'm guessing you heard the whole thing from the look on your face," he said with a wry grin.†   (source)
  • The wry humor left his face, and his eyes warmed up.†   (source)
  • "I know what you mean," said Eragon wryly.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, he reflected wryly,nothing she said will make sense until it has already happened.†   (source)
  • Smiling wryly to myself, I added Edward's greeting and hit "send.†   (source)
  • "You're lying," she said with a wry twist to her lips.†   (source)
  • My father gave a wry smile and shook his head.†   (source)
  • "I was tired enough to sleep through a thunderstorm," said Eragon wryly.†   (source)
  • He shrugged and gave a wry smile, as if he'd expected to catch me with the last question.†   (source)
  • I thought if you had any ideas…." she gave me a wry, hopeful look.†   (source)
  • Then she shrugged and gave me a hint of a wry smile.†   (source)
  • "You're not the first man to say that," Denna said, wryly.†   (source)
  • He gave a wry half-smile, fatigue written into the lines of his face.†   (source)
  • I think of Carol's wry-mouthed mother, of Mrs. Smeath with her hairpinned crown of graying braids.†   (source)
  • He spoke wryly on subjects like Jacqueline Susann's adoration of Ethel Merman.†   (source)
  • A wry smile touched his lips, and he shrugged.†   (source)
  • Garrett continued to stare at his father, a wry smile on his face.†   (source)
  • Not that I blame him," he added with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • "Uh-huh," she said, giving me a wry look.†   (source)
  • Look who's getting all paternal, Leah thought wryly.†   (source)
  • The man's wry, weather-beaten face was as warm and welcome as a winter fire.†   (source)
  • "Thank you, my dear," Tiberinus said with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • Say also,' said Gandalf, 'that to crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.†   (source)
  • The demon chewed on this a moment, a wry twinkle in his hooded eyes.†   (source)
  • "Quite right," said Connor, bowing his head with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • "Thanks for the suggestion," he said wryly.†   (source)
  • A wry smile slowly spread over Mark's face.†   (source)
  • "I think you are safe from physical attack," said Eddis wryly.†   (source)
  • His mouth was lopsided, as if drawn by a shaky hand, and this gave him a wry, mocking look.†   (source)
  • It took a few seconds before he saw her shoulders relax and she turned to him with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • She was barely recognizable with her mouth shut, I thought wryly.†   (source)
  • He is a slender man who looks like a teenager, and he has a wry sense of humor.†   (source)
  • Whether there had been jealousy under that wryness, Jordan wasn't sure.†   (source)
  • He made a wry face at once and threw the rest of the plum tomato into his waste-basket.†   (source)
  • "Thanks at last," he said, with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • "We have the same mother," the officer said, with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • He watched as David, with a wry smile, plucked Julie's camera from a nearby chair.†   (source)
  • He made a wry Iggy-face that I interpreted as deep happiness to be here.†   (source)
  • She looked at Lieutenant Awn with a wry twist to her mouth.†   (source)
  • Not an altogether bad idea," the president observed wryly, "but hardly a likely one."†   (source)
  • She had dark hair, startling blue eyes, and a wry mouth.†   (source)
  • The man stepped forward, a wry smile on his face.†   (source)
  • " She turned and smiled a wry smile at me as if to say I didn't know anything.†   (source)
  • You didn't ruin the wedding," she said with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • Annie gave him a wry look and took the glass from his hand.†   (source)
  • And thus he wondered at the wry twinkle in David's pale, almost colorless eyes.†   (source)
  • "To business," echoes Luke, and gives a wry smile.†   (source)
  • Jasper both saw and felt my assessment, my caution, and he smiled wryly.†   (source)
  • Öberg stopped bandaging Lundin's foot and gave Johansson a wry look.†   (source)
  • A wry smile spread across Cassius's face.†   (source)
  • I was too upset to laugh but gave a wry smile and looked over at Nudge.†   (source)
  • She would be run over, she thought wryly.†   (source)
  • Jeb shrugged and gave her a slow, wry smile.†   (source)
  • "Did you place a bet?" asked Max with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • Getting the word out, they call it," she adds, to me, with a wry smile.†   (source)
  • She raised an eyebrow at Eragon, and he responded with a wry smile, understanding.†   (source)
  • A very faint, wry amusement crossed her face.†   (source)
  • Drizzt said nothing but smiled wryly, adding to the barbarian's apprehension.†   (source)
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