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
Robertson’s raised eyebrows and perpetual half smile gave him an ironical appearance.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 1, 2018
His sober manner is especially effective in conveying Baker’s ironical description of British condescension to the colonized and deadpan accounts of the romantic entanglements of these unconventional, impossible characters.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2018
“Yes, I thought it was wonderful,” he lied and looked away; the sight of her transfigured face was at once an accusation and an ironical reminder of his own separateness.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
