wryly

wry | American Dictionary

wry
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
us/rɑɪ/
showing that you find a bad or difficult situation slightly amusing:
a wry smile
a wry sense of humor

Examples of wry

wry
They winced under their wry faces, afraid to stand and afraid to run away.
His accounts often contain asides, likely to bring a wry smile.
His tongue-in-cheek comparison of the religious life with the life of a fox-hunting man has a certain wry panache.
The various public service pathologies described here will bring a wry smile to the face of anyone who has worked with a large bureaucracy.
Throughout, she writes engagingly, and with a sensitivity and a wry humour which leavens her frequently lurid material.
He could be wry and sardonic about the claims of religious faith - but just as wary of metaphysical or ideological faith.
A suffix such as -anto, which combines a serious historical theme with grace-notes of (often wry) humour, may be appropriate.
It is characterized by a lot of wry humour, some of which had me spontaneously laughing aloud.
I gave him a wry smile, happy f or him yet casting a somewhat jaded eye on his assessment.
His 'revised performances,' created from existing works, often make wry commentaries on the content of the source material.
From this wry gesture emerged a tense, enigmatic ostinato figure, dry and mordant.
It can even be turned to wry advantage in quips that turn the homely wisecrack into a sagacious crevice.
His book is perceptive, human, and salted with wry humor.
Sometimes, in difficulty, he took my arm to help himself along, but the twinkle in the eye and the wry smile were always there.
By all means let us refrain from hostility or hostilities, and wreathe our wry smiles as we may.
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