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What does wryness mean?

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Noun
  1. The state of being wry
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He was a wonderful man, serious, but with a wryness and touch of irony.
Such wryness and wit are generously on hand in Hamilton's prints, as is a pervasive irony.
There was the smallest possible twist of wryness to the man's lips as he admitted to himself the necessity for the final words.
He brought the same quiet wryness to his conversation, and many of his remarks were all the funnier for his murmured, throwaway delivery.
Warmth, wryness and a sense of bewilderment at the world are what bond these two and make them so eminently listenable.
Aside from some mild cheerleading for Boris Johnson, O'Rourke thankfully left his own politics at the door – and you didn't have to agree with him to be tickled by his wryness.

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