wryly
/ˈrʌɪli
/adverb
In a way that expresses dry, especially mocking, humour: he reflects wryly on his life and work her wryly observed sketches and caricatures I smiled wryly at the words...
- The snapshots show the artist's wryly observant take on his world.
- In six delicately trenchant, wryly humorous images, she distills the memories of her two teenage years in a Catholic nunnery.
- Greene's prefaces are usually succinct, genuinely concerned with aspects of the writing process, and sometimes wryly humorous.
