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Qu'est-ce (qui) est wry smile - définition
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Wry; WRY (disambiguation)
wry
1.
If someone has a wry expression, it shows that they find a bad situation or a change in a situation slightly amusing.
Matthew allowed himself a wry smile...
ADJ: usu ADJ n
2.
A wry remark or piece of writing refers to a bad situation or a change in a situation in an amusing way.
There is a wry sense of humour in his work.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
wry
[r??]
¦ adjective (wryer, wryest or wrier, wriest)
1. using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humour.
2. (of a person's face or features) twisted into an expression of disgust, disappointment, or annoyance.
3. bending or twisted to one side.
Derivatives
wryly adverb
wryness noun
Origin
C16 (in the sense 'contorted'): from OE wrigian 'tend, incline', in ME 'deviate, swerve, contort'.
wry
a.
Distorted, twisted, crooked, askew, awry, on one side, turned to one side.
Exemples du corpus de texte pour wry smile
1. "We‘re one big family," Vaknin says with a wry smile.
2. "Don‘t speed up there," she warned with a wry smile.
3. He mentions former governor Eliot Spitzer with a wry smile.
4. "I think I know why my aorta dilated so much," he says with a wry smile.
5. David Cameron may even allow himself a wry smile at all the manufactured outrage.