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
How much more ironical it would be to see him, with that unearthly light upon his face, moving his hand across the page Constance had written to Laurence Austin just before she died.
From Flower of the Dusk by Reed, Myrtle
And that other smile, still sadder and more ironical, with which he received the news that they would not come before eight at night?
From The Reign of Greed by Derbyshire, Charles E.
He is indeed more ironical and provoking than in any other of Plato's writings: for he is 'fooled to the top of his bent' by the worldliness of Callicles.
From Gorgias by Jowett, Benjamin
