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
Cohen, whose family was both prominent and cultivated, had an ironical view of himself.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
My wife and I gathered several friends on a November night in 2008, and watched with joy and disbelief as this young, literary, ironical man with a Kenyan father was elected to the presidency.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 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
