careen vs wry

careen

verb
  • To tilt or lean while in motion. 

  • To tilt on one side. 

  • To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly. 

  • To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way. 

  • To lurch or sway violently from side to side. 

  • To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line. 

noun
  • The position of a ship laid on one side. 

wry

verb
  • To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.). 

adj
  • Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place. 

  • Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). 

  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

noun
  • Distortion. 

How often have the words careen and wry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )