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

“A talent for self-realisation” hints at the language of the “how-to” guide, and yet it’s not overtly ironical.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2017

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

He fixed me with a solemn and ironical gaze.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson