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

Katia, birdlike and ironical, kept track of the data and took the still photographs, while Maurice, who resembles a curly-headed lion cub, gave public lectures and wielded the movie camera.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022

Nine years her senior, he was brimming with the confident, ironical charm bestowed by élite English schools.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

“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

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