ironic
Example Sentences
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How ironic that Hamilton should finish behind Antonelli - but what is going on with Ferrari?
From BBC • May 26, 2026
Australia initially disinvited its choice, artist Khaled Sabsabi, for including a Hezbollah leader in one of his ironic video works created years ago—but reinvited him after a national outcry.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
It frightens me how painfully ironic it feels to cover a film about my industry’s demise when it was “The Devil Wears Prada” that pointed me here in the first place.
From Salon • May 1, 2026
Trump meanwhile admitted that it was "ironic" to be giving such a pomp-filled welcome to a British monarch in the 250th anniversary of US independence from the British crown.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
“Welcome to the Stalag,” said a man with an ironic smile and an English accent.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing ironic
The Giver
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This Week in Words: October 28 - November 2, 2018
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