Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A variant of
wry .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete See
wry .
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Examples
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After that book was made into an Oscar winning movie, and quit to wrie fishing stories.
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After that book was made into an Oscar winning movie, and quit to wrie fishing stories.
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She had a wrie mouth, huge great lippes, foule teeth, great and blacke, a monstrous stinking breath, her eyes bleared, and alwayes running, the complexion of her face betweene greene and yellow, as if shee had not spent the Summer season in the Citie, but in the parching
The Decameron 2004
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Where has the logic gone? another comment when you do take time to wrie to the actual Health Department and locate the right address etc, the reply is a typical consultant format, that says nothing except a constant speal
Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Andrew Sparrow 2010
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Please wrie me and let me not if I can be reinstated me and my children.
Tailgate 2010
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What greate thought take the mothers comenlye leste the infant shulde loke a gogle or a squint, lest he shuld be puffe cheked, wrie necked, croke shuldred, croke legged, splaye footed, and lest that the proporcion of his bodye shuld not be trimme in euery point: whereunto besyde other thynges, they be wont to vse swadelbondes, and keepe in their chekes wyth lytle miters.
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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And I am ging to write all this in my book I wrie in everyday Reflections from a mothers heart.
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And I am ging to write all this in my book I wrie in everyday Reflections from a mothers heart.
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And I am ging to write all this in my book I wrie in everyday Reflections from a mothers heart.
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You people make me sick, the mere fact that you took the time to wrie comments about the leak proves you don't hate it as much as you think. the leak is not final.
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