ironical
Example Sentences
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Knight has taken the novel’s Gothic elements and smeared them over whatever was light or comical or ironical in the original.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2023
Katia, birdlike and ironical, kept track of the data and took the still photographs, while Maurice, who resembles a curly-headed lion cub, gave public lectures and wielded the movie camera.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
This pessimism was also hinted at in Monday night’s gala presentation: “Harmony and understanding / Sympathy and trust abounding” never rang more ironical.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 7, 2017
Greif is the co-founder of the Brooklyn literary journal n+1, and he shares with his cenacle formidable powers of analysis, a coolly ironical worldview and a vaguely Marxist orientation.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2017
Our Father takes their ironical and self-interested tone to indicate a lack of genuine grief.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
