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

“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

Cohen, whose family was both prominent and cultivated, had an ironical view of himself.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

My wife and I gathered several friends on a November night in 2008, and watched with joy and disbelief as this young, literary, ironical man with a Kenyan father was elected to the presidency.

From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2016

Even his spectacles seemed to wear an ironical gleam.

From "1984" by George Orwell