inflected vs wry

inflected

adj
  • bent or curved inward or downward 

  • Changed in form to reflect function (referring to a word). 

  • Having inflected word forms; fusional. 

  • Deviating from a straight line. 

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