more ironical
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This pessimism was also hinted at in Monday night’s gala presentation: “Harmony and understanding / Sympathy and trust abounding” never rang more ironical.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 7, 2017
Britons had never hated the enemy as they did now, or lived in a more ironical compound of hope & fear.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It would be hard to find anything in history more ironical than the educational practices which have identified the "humanities" exclusively with a knowledge of Greek and Latin.
From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John
These words, which were running in the traveller's mind, grew more and more derisive, more and more ironical, as he walked about Narbonne.
From Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 by Rose, Elise Whitlock
The waiter appeared; the expression of his face was even more ironical than before.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de