ironical

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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

Greif is the co-founder of the Brooklyn literary journal n+1, and he shares with his cenacle formidable powers of analysis, a coolly ironical worldview and a vaguely Marxist orientation.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2017

Cohen, whose family was both prominent and cultivated, had an ironical view of himself.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger