jesting vs wry

jesting

adj
  • humorous 

  • playful; mocking 

  • facetious 

  • jeering 

noun
  • bantering; ridicule 

  • joking 

  • mocking 

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