Definition of "wryness" [wry•ness]

• The state of being wry (noun)

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• "So the publishers put, let's say, a little bit of extra effort into VELLUM (to understate it with a certain wryness)."
• "There's a kind of wryness — I'm sure Chekhov didn't expect you to have an evening of loud laughter."
• "Her heritage is about imagination and storytelling with large doses of passion and wryness which is reflected in her work."