facetious vs wry

facetious

adj
  • Pleasantly humorous; jocular. 

  • Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant. 

  • Of an idea or statement, humorously silly or counterproductive for the purpose of sarcastically advocating the opposite. 

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. 

noun
  • Distortion. 

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

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