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more ironical

ADJECTIVE

sarcastic

Synonyms

WEAK

acrid alert arrogant backbiting biting bitter burlesque caustic chaffing clever contemptuous contradictory critical cutting cynical defiant derisive disparaging double-edged exaggerated implausible incisive incongruous jibing keen mocking mordant paradoxical pungent quick-witted ridiculous sardonic satiric satirical scathing scoffing sharp sneering spicy trenchant twisted uncomplimentary witty wry

Antonyms

WEAK

considerate deferential

ADJECTIVE

cynical

Synonyms

WEAK

contemptuous cynic derisive ironic misanthropic misanthropical mocking pessimistic sarcastic sardonic scoffing scornful skeptical sneering suspicious unbelieving wry

Example Sentences

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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

A more ironical trick of fate could scarcely be imagined; but, all considered, Belinda was not altogether to blame.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert

But he hoped to provoke it from these in time, and his own letters grew the more earnest the more ironical hers became.

From A Pair of Patient Lovers by Howells, William Dean

Waldo d'Avigdor who masks with complete fashionable triviality a Hebraic immutability of passion tried in a more ironical and bitter service than his Father Jacob.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie