adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a wry comment (= saying that something is bad in an amusing way )
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‘Perhaps the food could be improved,’ was the wry comment of one prisoner.
a wry smile written (= when a situation is bad but also amusing )
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Guy’s mouth twisted into a wry smile.
wry humour (= when someone makes something seem both funny and sad )
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He wrote with wry humour about his time in a Turkish prison.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
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Leaning back, he began to reach for the packet of cigars, then made a wry face and changed his mind.
humour
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The deep voice was taunting, but there was a wry humour hidden somewhere beneath the laconic façade.
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And he retains the sense of wry humour which he reckons every newspaperman needs, if only to keep him sane.
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She relaxed and told Jay about her life, with the wry humour of a survivor.
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However, wry humour was not a quality I detected in the lady.
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Yet they are saved from sentimentality by the wry humour of both text and pictures.
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His artistic talent combines with a wry humour - a man on a toilet is hidden in each of the intricate drawings.
smile
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Little Nemo falling out of his bed at the end of every strip still brings a wry smile .
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Sometimes she gives her Dante a wry smile or a worried look as she leads him from Purgatory to Paradise.
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In spite of herself, Lisa smiled a wry smile.
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But former Elland Road favourite Eddie Gray could be forgiven a wry smile at today's free-spending ways.
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Growing older, she decided with a wry smile , had its advantages.
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Hearing her praises lavishly extolled, she gave a sad, wry smile and returned to Terry's room to clear up.
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That's the flneur, caught in the spotlight, blushing perhaps but with a wry smile playing around his lips.
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He listened patiently, with a wry smile .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a wry smile
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A dash of wry cynicism might have helped another woman, but that was not Franca's way.
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And he retains the sense of wry humour which he reckons every newspaperman needs, if only to keep him sane.
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In spite of herself, Lisa smiled a wry smile.
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Knowing this, Googol tried to be wry about his own feelings and eschewed any dandified garb such as Jaq now sported.
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Perhaps, to some extent, she thought with wry amusement, she owed her professional success to Jake.
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She relaxed and told Jay about her life, with the wry humour of a survivor.
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Somehow, he derived a strange, wry satisfaction from this thought.
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This is a delicious comedy full of wry observations and delightful fun-poking at the world of movie-making.