scoffing vs wry

scoffing

noun
  • The act of one who scoffs; derision; mockery. 

wry

noun
  • Distortion. 

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

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

  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

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

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