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wryly

[ US /ˈɹaɪɫi/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈa‍ɪli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a wry manner
    `I see,' he commented wryly

How To Use wryly In A Sentence

  • 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.’
  • You need to watch the diet and, he says wryly, this is one publican that only rarely gets a chance to have a few pints.
  • That fascinating gamut from dove to anthracite, Petra thought wryly. THE LAST TEMPTATION
  • So, too, do the sanitary pioneers she tracks down and whose characters she wryly sketches with a few deft flicks of the pen. Times, Sunday Times
  • In an introductory note to the teacher, he says wryly that ‘Much of the commentary has been kept sufficiently gnomic not to impede the teacher who wants to modify or dissent from it,’ and such a note is borne out by what follows.
  • Jean in a London laundromat, wryly observes: ‘I squandered my life's savings to watch my smalls go round.’
  • Here in Pork Smith we have entered what mr. delagar and I wryly call astrological cold spots -- places in life where one must begin to walk carefully, as everything that can go wrong begins to do so. Archive 2006-12-01
  • He also wryly acknowledges that he risks sounding like a grumpy old man pining for an overly-romanticised past.
  • She recognized it as an unspoken apology and smiled wryly as she continued.
  • With Shanza's hand still clasped in his hold, Zethus jested wryly, ‘Too bad I'm not a palm reader.’
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