ironical
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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
“I don’t know if it’s ironical, or a blessing, but I had 20 years of experience being around disabled athletes, so I have an understanding of what’s going on,” he said.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 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
Even his spectacles seemed to wear an ironical gleam.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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