crabbed vs wry

crabbed

adj
  • Cramped, bent. 

  • Pointed at an angle to the runway during approach and landing to compensate for a crosswind. 

  • Bad-tempered or cantankerous. 

  • Crowded together and difficult to read. 

  • Performed with one's aircraft pointed at an angle to the runway to compensate for a crosswind; performed with nonzero crab. 

wry

adj
  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

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

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

  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

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

noun
  • Distortion. 

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