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Recent Examples of wryness
The harp is not an instrument of slyness, wryness, or the earth.
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Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 28 Apr. 2026
Emma Madden, Pitchfork, 28 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wryness
Noun
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In fact, he’s leaned into the irony of his story.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 Apr. 2026
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However, there was another development that almost compensated, just in the sheer irony of it.—
Mary Gaitskill,
Vogue,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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D’heygere There’s no one who reads the room better than Stéphanie D’heygere — and adds plenty of wittiness and humor to it.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
Noun
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And that’s the absurdity of this whole thing.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
26 Apr. 2026
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That’s the kind of hands-on absurdity that makes a road trip memorable.—
Lauren Schuster,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Well, the Premier League table is definitely worth looking at, if only to marvel at its ludicrousness.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In 1983, Mark Russell, whose satire was a PBS staple, offered relatively tame jabs at Reagan.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 Apr. 2026
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The project brings together satire and documentary to move across memory, ideology and political contradiction.—
Emiliano de Pablos,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Whoever enlisted Jorma Taccone to direct this deserves a raise, given that the charter member of the Lonely Island understands how to consistently ramp things up to levels of high ridiculousness.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Apr. 2026
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That person — a sunny, daffy, confection of trashy Southern ridiculousness — is just not a mean person.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Wryness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wryness. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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