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wry
adj. distorted; crooked; twisted; askew; contorted; ironic, dry


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Westray Airport
Westray Airport is an airport located at Aikerness, on Westray in the Orkney IslandsScotland. It is best known for being one of the two airports joined by the shortest scheduled flight in the world, a leg of Loganair's inter-island service, to Papa Westray Airport. As well as the Papa Westray flights, services to the main Orkney town Kirkwall are offered.
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wry
Adjective
1. 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"
(synonym) dry, ironic, ironical
(similar) humorous, humourous
2. bent to one side; "a wry neck"
(similar) crooked
3. 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
(synonym) sardonic
(similar) sarcastic


Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Wry
(v. t.)
To cover.
  
 
(v. i.)
To twist; to writhe; to bend or wind.
  
 
(v. i.)
To deviate from the right way; to go away or astray; to turn side; to swerve.
  
 
(superl.)
Wrested; perverted.
  
 
(superl.)
Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.
  
 
(superl.)
Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words.
  
 
(a.)
To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex.
  

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wry
Synonyms and related words:
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
  

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