awry vs wry

awry

adj
  • Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry. 

  • Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course 

adv
  • Perversely, improperly. 

  • Obliquely, crookedly; askew. 

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 awry and wry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )