wry vs rye
Definitions
adjective
- humorously sarcastic or mocking
- bent to one side
Examples
Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
But King George's smile was a bit awry tonight.
Coates wry, muttered lyrics lend his ditties a mischievous if subdued charm.
Definitions
noun
- hardy annual cereal grass widely cultivated in northern Europe where its grain is the chief ingredient of black bread and in North America for forage and soil improvement
- whiskey distilled from rye or rye and malt
- the seed of the cereal grass
Examples
On October 30, just as the flood waters were creeping up in Ryedale, she drove her Peugeot car through a deep puddle and stalled the engine.
Mustard, salt, picholine olives and super-thin rye toasts give the house-cured gravlax just the right accents.
But Frye's dreams of systematizing and co-ordinating a literary universe also rose to meet counterparts in Frances Yates's 1967 account of the zodiacs and theatres of the encyclopaedic memory systems of Bruno and Camillo.
