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

His sober manner is especially effective in conveying Baker’s ironical description of British condescension to the colonized and deadpan accounts of the romantic entanglements of these unconventional, impossible characters.

From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2018

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

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

She stood before him very upright, with a smile on her face that looked faintly ironical, as though she were wondering why he was so slow to act.

From "1984" by George Orwell