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

To be able to maintain an ironical approach to life means avoiding a more passionately committed or passionately expressive one.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

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

From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2017

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