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

Robertson’s raised eyebrows and perpetual half smile gave him an ironical appearance.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

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

Even his spectacles seemed to wear an ironical gleam.

From "1984" by George Orwell