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Sentence count:161+4Posted:2017-02-10Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: dryironicalwrySimilar words: ironicallychronicchronicleelectronicelectronicsironironyiron curtainMeaning: [aɪ'rɑnɪk /-'rɒn-]  adj. 1. humorously sarcastic or mocking 2. characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is. 
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31. The comedy of reassurance, still, but with a self-conscious, ironic twist that Bruce Forsyth would never have dreamed of.
32. This is ironic, given all the rhetoric about the incompetence and irrelevance of the public sector.
33. Dara does most of the talking, in her histrionic, italicized, ironic way.
34. It's ironic that professional athletes are often such unhealthy people.
35. What is in some ways ironic is that a naive notion of necessity had already received a severe jolt from David Hume.
36. I know the Story of her Life - each ironic twist.
37. This is particularly ironic given that at least three people were hospitalised after taking Ketamine at the same venue.
38. This takes the form of an ironic critique ostensibly illustrating the superiority of Philips's pastorals to Pope's.
39. Sentence 9, on the other hand, can be seen as a sort of ironic hyperbole: Arthur is paranoiac.
40. It is ironic that we are particular about flushing out all the dirt through the drain, but we continue to retain a lot of it in our brain. RVM 
41. Bedford is by turns hilarious and ironic in the best sense: compassionate and yet clear-eyed.
42. He was greeted with massive and ironic cheers from the Opposition and listened to in almost total silence by our own benches.
43. Although, with hindsight, the more thoughtful members of Stark realized that the cause of his death was chillingly ironic.
44. But above all ironic amusement at how things had worked out.
45. I finally encountered the bomb baby, thus fulfilling the ironic prophecy of my dreams.
46. It was ironic, though, that without the official opposition the bull-running would probably have faded quietly away into obscurity.
47. The description, which I had read in a recent newspaper account, had struck me as infinitely ironic and strange.
48. The dying planet has a metaphysical relationship to my own mortality and to that extent my inquiry into landscape is inherently ironic.
49. It is ironic that often the most severe weather conditions can produce some of the most intricate and fragile sights.
50. The tone is that of the narrator,[sentencedict.com] ironic and sad - yet the novel does contain some successful humour.
51. Save Our Jobs turned out to be an ironic nom de guerre.
52. No grace in it, and no patience to wait for thanks, even ironic thanks.
53. It seemed ironic that at long last I was here, albeit by a very much more circuitous route than originally planned.
54. Solemn works printed on shirts suddenly become funny or ironic.
55. Despite the turmoil within her a small ironic smile lifted the corners of her mouth.
56. He is soft-spoken and his message is understated. The whole thing is a little ironic, but nobody seems to notice.
57. He could take a joke, and put on such an ironic self-assured face no one felt bad laughing.
58. He had the ironic, amused manner of a high school teacher, which he also was.
59. The ironic male viewer stands apart whilst the women are moved to tears.
60. Here was the ironic otherness that existed in the Little Saigon community.
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