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

To be able to maintain an ironical approach to life means avoiding a more passionately committed or passionately expressive one.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

“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

If someone else wrote this book, it’d just be a historical novel, but Vonnegut has all these different ironical layers that turn it into something else.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2015

“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