All 4 Uses of
wry
in
Catch-22
- 'At least we found out what he dreams about,' Dunbar observed wryly.†
Chpt 12 *
- He made a wry face at once and threw the rest of the plum tomato into his waste-basket.†
Chpt 21
- Yossarian smiled wryly at the futile and ridiculous cry for aid, then saw with a start that the words were ambiguous, realized with alarm that they were not, perhaps, intended as a call for police but as a heroic warning from the grave by a doomed friend to everyone who was not a policeman with a club and a gun and a mob of other policemen with clubs and guns to back him up.†
Chpt 39
- He sat up in bed with his back resting against the headboard, lit a cigarette, smiled slightly with wry amusement, and stared with whimsical sympathy at the vivid, pop-eyed horror that had implanted itself permanently on Major Danby's face the day of the mission to Avignon, when General Dreedle had ordered him taken outside and shot.†
Chpt 42
Definition:
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(wry) understated humor -- often sarcastic or ironic -- often expressed by twisting the face
or (more rarely): a facial expression showing displeasure