Sample Sentences for
wry
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    The reporter wryly remarked that the president's speech was "full of empty promises."
    wryly = with subtle or ironic humor (suggesting that she did not believe the president's promises)
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    Probably exhausted from resenting me so much, I think with a wry smile.  (source)
    wry = sarcastic or ironic
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    The Giver watched him with a wry smile.  (source)
    wry = ironic
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    "The thing seems to break down every couple minutes." He cracked a wry smile. "Of course, I hear we might run out of light bulbs before that, and then it won't matter if the generator works or not."  (source)
    wry = understated ironic humor
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    "Do you know how lucky you are?" She smiled rather wryly. "Not most of the time."  (source)
    wryly = with ironic humor in an understated way
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    "I was figuring I could sulk for Idris in the next Olympics," Jace said, but his voice was already softening, the edge of hard self-loathing filed away, wryness and amusement taking its place.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Here he put the light on his desk, and said to the stranger, with his wryest twist upon him, 'Your commands.'†  (source)
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    It was Loki's face, except younger—the same wry smile and sharp features, the same unearthly beauty, but without the scarred lips or the acid burns across the nose.  (source)
    wry = understated, sarcastic, or ironic
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    Why did Judith have to remind her? Kit thought wryly.  (source)
    wryly = annoyed or unhappy
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    Whether there had been jealousy under that wryness, Jordan wasn't sure.†  (source)
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    And his father, with his squinty gaze, his wry humor.  (source)
    wry = understated
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    "Perhaps there's a ghost on the Hindenburg, too," she said wryly.  (source)
    wryly = expressing a sense of irony (saying something but not really meaning it)
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    There was a distance, a wryness, in Titch's manner that did not resemble the man who had grieved at the news of the death on Faith Plantation.†  (source)
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