ironical

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Ironical, Romantic When William Fox, cinema magnate, magnifies his business, as he again did last week by the purchase of 356 theatres, he enjoys the luxury of reminiscence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ironical laughter at this juncture caused the removal of several spectators from the courtroom.

From The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry by Smith, Walker C.

Ironical Bakkus began to hum the old nursery song: Il était une bergère Et ron, ron, ron, petit patapon.

From The Mountebank by Locke, William John

Ironical, and gifted with a certain clownish humor, they had not much natural wit: but they were clever enough, and they manufactured their goods in imitation of Paris.

From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Cannan, Gilbert

Ironical people like Gibbon are rarely tolerant of brilliant folly.

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine