wry humour

collocation in English

meaningsofwryandhumour

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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 ...
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(Definition ofwryandhumourfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwry humour

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The composer himself explained each work in some detail, and with muchwryhumour.
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One can extract a certainwryhumourfrom the situation.
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Throughout, she writes engagingly, and with a sensitivity and awryhumourwhich leavens her frequently lurid material.
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It is characterized by a lot ofwryhumour, some of which had me spontaneously laughing aloud.
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We seem to have lost the capacity to treat our foibles with thewryhumourthat many of them deserve.
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The finale too drifts away into poetic musings, if not without a certainwryhumourat the very end, with the 'poignant' chromaticism followed by a very plain final cadence.
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Anyone who doubts that should stand in the terraces or sit in the stand at a football match and listen to thewryhumour.
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Hansard archive
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One of these days we must look at this again without thewryhumourthat we have enjoyed tonight from my noble friends.
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The motif in his paintings is a critical social surrealism that is predicated on a dark andwryhumour.
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Her eyes were grey, and her mouth was small; her smile allowed her to demonstrate herwryhumour, her wit, and her graciousness.
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