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Word entry · 5 letters

wryly

Best crossword clue

"With dry humor"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹaɪli/Part of speech adverbSorted lrwyyStarts with WEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
1W2R3Y4L5Y

Definitions

  1. In a dry, ironic, or slightly twisted humorous way.

Word origin

From wry + -ly.

Used in a sentence

  • The sins of the father, she thought wryly. Well, they had visited Tony, all right—only he didn't know it.
  • ‘The king is displeased with it, but he has to be patient,’ Chapuys wryly commented.
  • A Ukrainian presidential adviser wrote that Kyiv had nothing to do with the attacks but then wryly compared them to Russia’s past use of proxy forces to fight in Ukraine.

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