Meanings
adverbwrily (comparative more wrily, superlative most wrily)
comparative more wrily · superlative most wrily
- alternativeuncommonAlternative form of wryly.
He grinned wrily. “I guess she keeps me on my toes.
1994, Elizabeth Adler, Legacy of Secrets, Island, published 1994, page 4341 more example
But Redburn, from the start, had linked himself to those ambiguous red men, in an image part physical, part wrily metaphysical.
1849, Herman Melville, Redburn, Penguin, published 1986, page 20
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