wry
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"I don't know if he was lying or if he believed it himself," Conor says with a wry smile.
From BBC β Sep. 11, 2026
Harry, whose war trauma makes him strangely irresistible to women, is as wry about romance as he is about work.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 8, 2026
The Tiny Tim needledrops, an in-universe parody of Adam West’s Batman, the irony of its main character finding fulfillment as a fry cook — it all pointed toward Gen X’s wry, detached view of culture.
From Salon β Aug. 30, 2026
"I've learned how to do everything with one leg, except to be able to use a wheelbarrow," said Williams with a wry smile.
From BBC β Jul. 26, 2026
She’d tell them the truth, with a sigh and a wry smile: “Nothing much. Just someone to love with all my heart. Nothing much at all.”
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
The wrier is president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
From Washington Post β Mar. 3, 2023
Associated Press wrier Sophia Bollag contributed to this report from Los Angeles.
From Washington Times β Nov. 7, 2018
These idiosyncratic artworks, which displayed a wrier side of his personality, were not seen by the public until after Geisel’s death in 1991.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 15, 2018
There is no heir apparent to Ms. Winfrey; while Ellen DeGeneres is beloved, her tone is wrier.
From New York Times β Nov. 15, 2010
“In it, a lord asks a lady if she’ll love him, and she replies ambiguously: ‘I cannot hate.’” wriest McInnis.
From The Guardian β Sep. 6, 2016
"That's a perfectly good wish plumb wasted," said Penfield, refilling both glasses, his features twisted in the wriest of grimaces.
From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Arthur William Brown
I confronted death with a smile; I meet life with the wriest of wry faces.
From Simon the Jester by William John Locke
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