showing that you think something is funny but also disappointing or annoying 啼笑皆非的 ‘At least we got one vote,’ she said with a wry smile. “我們起碼還得了一票。” 她苦笑着解嘲道。 He pulled a wry face when I asked him how it had gone. 我問他近況如何，他有些哭笑不得。
funny in a way that shows irony 挖苦的；諷刺的；揶揄的 It's a wry comedy about family life. 這是一部關於家庭生活的諷刺喜劇。 a wry comment 挖苦的評論 He didn't even seem to notice her wry humour. 他似乎根本沒有注意到她的幽默。 The film takes a wry look at the British class system. 影片對英國的階級制度投去了嘲弄的一瞥。
Word Originearly 16th cent. (in the sense ‘contorted’): from Old English wrīgian ‘tend, incline’, in Middle English ‘deviate, swerve, contort’.