more ironical
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This pessimism was also hinted at in Monday night’s gala presentation: “Harmony and understanding / Sympathy and trust abounding” never rang more ironical.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 7, 2017
Britons had never hated the enemy as they did now, or lived in a more ironical compound of hope & fear.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But he hoped to provoke it from these in time, and his own letters grew the more earnest the more ironical hers became.
From A Pair of Patient Lovers by Howells, William Dean
Waldo d'Avigdor who masks with complete fashionable triviality a Hebraic immutability of passion tried in a more ironical and bitter service than his Father Jacob.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie
The waiter appeared; the expression of his face was even more ironical than before.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de