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Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
  2. Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
  3. Twisted, bent, crooked.
  4. Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.

Verb

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To turn (away); to swerve or deviate.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To cover; clothe; cover up; cloak; hide.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To divert; to cause to turn away.
  4. (transitive) To twist or contort (the body, face etc.).

Exempel

  • '"Why, you snivelling, wry-faced, puny villain," gasped old Lobbs.
  • “Humph! Had to,” said Pep with a wry grimace.
  • "[T]he master says a wry word now and then; and so ye let your spirits go down, don't ye see, and all sorts o' fancies comes into your head."
  • Catherine hath made a wry stitch in her broidery, when she was thinking of something else than her work.
  • . . . the wry rigour of our neighbours, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application.
  • God pricketh them of his great goodness still. And the grief of this great pang pincheth them at the heart, and of wickedness they wry away.
  • You married ones,
  • If each of you should take this course, how many
  • Must murder wives much better than themselves
  • For wrying but a little!

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticipwriedImperfektwried
PresensparticipwryingKomparativwryer
KomparativwrierSuperlativwryest
SuperlativwriestTredje person singular indicativ presenswries

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