ornery vs wry

ornery

adj
  • Mischievous, prankish, teasing, disagreeable but in a good way. 

  • Cantankerous, stubborn, disagreeable. 

wry

adj
  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

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

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

  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

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

noun
  • Distortion. 

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