wrily
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wrily (comparative more wrily, superlative most wrily)
- In a wry manner.
- 1849, Herman Melville, Redburn, Penguin, published 1986, page 20:
- But Redburn, from the start, had linked himself to those ambiguous red men, in an image part physical, part wrily metaphysical.
- 1994, Elizabeth Adler, Legacy of Secrets, Island, published 1994, page 434:
- He grinned wrily. “I guess she keeps me on my toes.