Wry

v. t.	1.	To cover. Wrie you in that mantle. - Chaucer.
a.	1.
	1.	Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.
	2.	Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words. Not according to the wry rigor of our neighbors, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application. - Landor.
	3.	Wrested; perverted. He . . . puts a wry sense upon Protestant writers. - Atterbury. Wry face a distortion of the countenance indicating impatience, disgust, or discomfort; a grimace.
v. i.	1.	To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.
	2.	To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve. This Phebus gan awayward for to wryen. - Chaucer. How many Must murder wives much better than themselves For wrying but a little! - Shak.
v. t.	1.	To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex. [imp. & p. p. Wried; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrying.] Guests by hundreds, not one caring If the dear host's neck were wried. - R. Browning.

Adj.	1.	wry - humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit" Synonyms: ironic, ironical, dry
	2.	wry - bent to one side; "a wry neck"
	3.	wry - disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking; "his rebellion is the bitter, sardonic laughter of all great satirists"- Frank Schoenberner; "a wry pleasure to be...reminded of all that one is missing"- Irwin Edman Synonyms: sardonic

agee, agee-jawed, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, awry, catawampous, catawamptious, cockeyed, crooked, cynical, ironic, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slaunchways, squinting, wamper-jawed, wrest, wring, yaw-ways