wryness

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Noun
  • The irony is that, after a tough couple of decades, the package holiday sector had recaptured the imagination of investors once more.
    Ian King, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
  • New York, as might be expected, has led the industry, although the irony is that the number of restaurants extant in New York has been more or less the same for most of the 21stcentury––about 28,000 eateries, including traditional restaurants, cafés, food trucks and bars that serve food.
    John Mariani, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But coming from Alexander Karp, the CEO and cofounder of Palantir Technologies, this concern-trolling about a growing censoriousness in ‘the culture’ feels almost intentional in its absurdity.
    Book Marks September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The result is an absurdity that can elicit instinctual laughter at the grossest imagery imaginable.
    Robert Niles, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Developer Arrowhead has characterized the game as a satire.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • What Castro depicts, in pointillist satire, is the way someone on the inside might come to agree.
    Jeremy Gordon, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This is only the first week of Mafiathon 3, meaning there is only more ridiculousness to come.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But what’s novel is the sheer ridiculousness of the Lafufus.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2025
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“Wryness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wryness. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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