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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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61. She was a wonderful teacher, belonging to a now-vanished age, an uncertificated teacher. How ironic!
62. It's ironic that the most important people in the country often have so little understanding of how ordinary people live.
63. The result is that we encounter unsuspected shades of gray, with solo flute and bassoon weaving ironic commentaries.
64. This is somewhat ironic when it is realized that local government has substantial resources that can not be used because of centrally-imposed prescriptions.
65. And this would be somewhat ironic given the definition of social psychology with which we started this discussion.
66. One of the study's ironic discoveries is that TV trials educate the public about the justice system better than actual trials.
67. It is ironic that her new show will be called simply Sue Lawley.
68. How would you interpret her letter? Is she really hostile or just being ironic?
69. The simple ironic reading is based on the assumption that the high Shakespearian allusions are really inapposite.
70. It is ironic that a cyborg invested with collective human intelligence should still be represented in a recognisably human form.
71. Oliver swept off his battered top hat in ironic acknowledgement of her sally.
72. Equally ironic was the fact that four years earlier Johnson had won the biggest percentage of the popular vote in modern history.
73. His insistence that he be managing editor, as well as on-camera news reader, however, seems historically ironic.
74. She claimed that their action had been ill-considered and ironic coming so soon after the launch of their customer service charter.
75. He's at least five years younger than her and he has an ironic smile as elusive as hers is guileless.
76. It is rather ironic that we continue to run down our coal industry and sterilise billions of tonnes of coal.
77. The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. Christopher Hitchens 
78. His somewhat ironic closing aside,[http://sentencedict.com/ironic.html] the process Dave described closely resembles the high-performance model outlined in the figure on page 168.
79. Given the ironic code name Oxcart, the plane was the first to be built from titanium.
80. It's ironic that the largest state in the union has such a small Legislature.
81. He had a good ironic smile when he smiled, which was very infrequently.
82. While all of the separates bore the requisite logos, they also had a sense of humor or ironic twists.
83. That is ironic given Labour's supposed support for the concept of unitary authorities which the Government are pursuing.
84. It was an ironic situation, the two men in her life meeting like that.
85. They gave the place a summery look, an ironic note considering the winter that cloaked them both.
86. The film itself is preceded by an elaborately ironic but nervy disclaimer about it being just a joke.
87. It seems somewhat ironic that shorts have become the training ground for features.
88. But along the way Alice Thomas Ellis creates an ironic and vivid portrait of London, brilliantly catching its degradation and waste.
89. It is particularly ironic in view of another key policy initiative, welfare to work.
90. Now he tried to smile a discreet and ironic little smile.
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