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

“I don’t know if it’s ironical, or a blessing, but I had 20 years of experience being around disabled athletes, so I have an understanding of what’s going on,” he said.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2022

Nine years her senior, he was brimming with the confident, ironical charm bestowed by élite English schools.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

“A talent for self-realisation” hints at the language of the “how-to” guide, and yet it’s not overtly ironical.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2017

It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger