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.
with his necktie twisted awry
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
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.
Now stadium officials have decided to turf out the rye grass surface and lay a fresh pitch.
