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

Hobbes is never less than ironical in his attitude to humanity’s appetite for “government”.

From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2017

Doughty has a low, mellifluous voice and an ironical manner.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2015

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

She stood before him very upright, with a smile on her face that looked faintly ironical, as though she were wondering why he was so slow to act.

From "1984" by George Orwell