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wry humour

collocation in English

meanings of wryand humour


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wry
adjective[before noun]
uk /raɪ/ us /raɪ/
showing that you find a bad or difficult situation ...
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humour
noun
uk /ˈhjuː.mər/ us /ˈhjuː.mɚ/
the ability to find things funny, the way in which people see that some things are funny, or the quality of ...
See more at humour


Examples of wry humour


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The composer himself explained each work in some detail, and with much wryhumour.
One can extract a certain wryhumour from the situation.
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Hansard archive

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Throughout, she writes engagingly, and with a sensitivity and a wryhumour which leavens her frequently lurid material.
It is characterized by a lot of wryhumour, some of which had me spontaneously laughing aloud.
We seem to have lost the capacity to treat our foibles with the wryhumour that many of them deserve.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The finale too drifts away into poetic musings, if not without a certain wryhumour at the very end, with the 'poignant' chromaticism followed by a very plain final cadence.
Anyone who doubts that should stand in the terraces or sit in the stand at a football match and listen to the wryhumour.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
One of these days we must look at this again without the wryhumour that we have enjoyed tonight from my noble friends.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The motif in his paintings is a critical social surrealism that is predicated on a dark and wryhumour.
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Wikipedia

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Her eyes were grey, and her mouth was small; her smile allowed her to demonstrate her wryhumour, her wit, and her graciousness.
From
Wikipedia

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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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