ironic
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Their total ineptitude—120 losses out of 161 games in 1962, their first season—helped make them ironic underdog heroes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Ann Thorpe, an auctioneer at Dartmoor Auctions, said "I think you do sometimes get ironic buys. Things like people's secret Santa presents and that kind of thing."
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
He feels it is "quite ironic" that the CMA would design a remedy that would potentially push large volumes of income to two of these businesses.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
As characters, they may be flamboyant and/or ironic in a way often denied to the central investigators, whom they are likely to find a little irritating.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
There was something both ironic and gentle about him.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Vocabulary lists containing ironic
The Giver
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The Catcher in the Rye
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This Week in Words: October 28 - November 2, 2018
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