Wrily

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    Alternative form of wryly. alt-of, alternative, uncommon

    "But Redburn, from the start, had linked himself to those ambiguous red men, in an image part physical, part wrily metaphysical."

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"But Redburn, from the start, had linked himself to those ambiguous red men, in an image part physical, part wrily metaphysical."

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