wry

ironinen

kiero Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
1837, w:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, chapter 17:

'"Why, you snivelling, wry-faced, puny villain," gasped old Lobbs.

“Humph! Had to,” said Pep with a wry grimace.

"The master says a wry word now and then; and so ye let your spirits go down, don't ye see, and all sorts o' fancies comes into your head."

Catherine hath made a wry stitch in her broidery, when she was thinking of something else than her work.

. . . the wry rigour of our neighbours, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application.

God pricketh them of his great goodness still. And the grief of this great pang pincheth them at the heart, and of wickedness they wry away.

You married ones,

If each of you should take this course, how many

Must murder wives much better than themselves

For wrying but a little!