ironic
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Their total ineptitude—120 losses out of 161 games in 1962, their first season—helped make them ironic underdog heroes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
We can see Houghton’s play in these moments, but then Alloway’s cheeky pop sensibility intervenes, the arch artificiality and ironic tone draining the emotional impact.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Ann Thorpe, an auctioneer at Dartmoor Auctions, said "I think you do sometimes get ironic buys. Things like people's secret Santa presents and that kind of thing."
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
Littler did avoid the whitewash, with an ironic celebration showing he felt it was nothing more than a consolation.
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026
The town’s new status may have struck many Southerners as ironic, for in the years immediately following the Civil War, Durham was known chiefly as the site of one of the Confederacy’s final humiliations.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Vocabulary lists containing ironic
The Giver
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