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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a disdainful grimace [syn: pout, moue, wry face]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wry Wry, a. [Compar. Wrier; superl. Wriest.] [Akin to OE. wrien to twist, to bend, AS. wrigian to tend towards, to drive.] 1. Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth. 2. Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words. Not according to the wry rigor of our neighbors, who never take up an old idea without some extravagance in its application. --Landor. 3. Wrested; perverted. He . . . puts a wry sense upon Protestant writers. --Atterbury. Wry face, a distortion of the countenance indicating impatience, disgust, or discomfort; a grimace.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

Grimace, distortion of countenance.