ironical
Example Sentences
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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
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
It was, Notaro recalls in a deadpan voice that hovers between ironical understatement and embarrassment about all the drama, “a pretty crazy time”.
From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2016
If someone else wrote this book, it’d just be a historical novel, but Vonnegut has all these different ironical layers that turn it into something else.
From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2015
Even his spectacles seemed to wear an ironical gleam.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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