knotted vs wry

knotted

adj
  • Tied in knots. 

  • Full of knots; knotty. 

  • Having the shape or form of a knot. 

  • Tangled, tangly, knotty, entangled, matted, snarled, unkempt, or uncombed. 

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. 

noun
  • Distortion. 

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

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