sidelong vs wry

sidelong

adj
  • Slanting or sloping; oblique. 

  • Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward. 

  • Directed to the side; sideways. 

  • Along the side of something. 

adv
  • obliquely 

  • Towards the side; sideways. 

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