Word Finder - ironic

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Characterized by or constituting (any kind of) irony.

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Given to the use of irony; sarcastic.

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Contrary or opposite to what may be expected.

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It's ironic to have a blizzard in the middle of the summer.

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Odd or coincidental; strange.

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It's ironic that we are eating a sandwich in Sandwich, Massachusetts.

There were ironic cheers from the side that lost the game.

It is ironic to think that, in later years, the police would require help themselves.

It is ironic that most people don't actually put these things on top of their televisions!

As part of Nana's torment, in a bitterly ironic twist, former Eastender's star Hilda Braid has been taken to a nursing home with suspected dementia.

There was an ironic counterpoint buried in the music and lyrics.

He had an ironic wit.

In an ironic twist, the actual bearer of the guns rears their head from the jungle.

His mouth twisted into an ironic smile that never reached his eyes.

Before she died, Eyre had composed the cruelly ironic epitaph, which finally stung her to desperation and death.

Born in Long Island, New York, and hailing from Forrest Hills, Queens, Donna Karan expertly blends the fast pace of New York City with a seemingly ironic, classic sense of timelessness.

Coney Island is now nothing more than an ironic name, as it is no longer an island at all.

The latter is ironic, since it was known as a penalty space in earlier versions.

It's ironic that a multi-billion dollar industry exists to promote something that doesn't actually cost you a cent.

His Gedichte (1837), if anything, increased his reputation; his epics, Die Nibelungen inn Frack (1843) and Der Pfaff vom Kahlenberg (1850), are characterized by a fine ironic humour.

Then again, I might have just missed the point about some ironic joke thanks to an overly earnest press release.

Swann embodies the discretion and ironic self-effacement which are the anti-thesis of French directness.

It was ironic that by the end of his life he was regarded as a scion of the English establishment.

What is ironic in the handbook is the studious avoidance of many themes and issues that would help to inform that practice.

It can have an ironic look in an urban setting, but also define urbanity.

The ironic part to the control is that while not in Berserk mode, Guts is a little sluggish and hard to turn on a dime.

He held an ironic detachment from the world.

Their unequivocal embrace of social conformity is doubly ironic considering they kept themselves apart from others.

Could have drifted to novelty, but thoughtfully put together to avoid the obvious ironic pitfalls.

It may seem slightly ironic to find raw food recipes when they are not actually cooked.

The referee getting huge ironic cheers for not only spotting it for once but calling it City's way too.

I kept waiting for it to become ironic -- but it didn't!

To some the dispute over opium may seem outrageous, to others delightfully ironic.

Seven Santas bore aloft colorful placards bearing ironic advertising slogans such as " Buy More, Be Happy ", " Work!

It's an apt, if ironic, tag given that the hotel lies in an autonomous Tibetan prefecture.

The statement that it may be possible to hear ptarmigan is ironic.

Nonetheless, even in this section much of his exposition is ironic, sometimes shading off into heavy sarcasm.

Nervous tic or ironic self-awareness; it was n't particularly funny in either case.

He said he did not think The Office 's understated ironic humor would be lost on an American TV audience.

If you wish to be ironic, you can tell guests that you bought it as a collector's piece in view of global climate change.

After all, what is more ironic than retiring from one career by preparing for another?

For many, there is an undeniable, ironic eroticism in innocence.

At first, I found it ironic, and then it struck me that the majority of alarms rely on something most of us take for granted, and yet is unaccessible to a large part of population - the sense of hearing.

She has said that it seemed ironic to her that she became so famous by keeping her clothes on, and then when she hit 40 they still wanted her to take them off.

But the form Querouailles was commonly used in England, where it was corrupted into Carwell or Carewell, perhaps with an ironic reference to the care which the duchess took to fill her pocket.

It all seems rather ironic now, standing here, in the drizzle, waiting for the bus.

In the end, Gorak indulges in a couple of ironic plot points that seem unnecessarily morbid.

A real, raw authentic performance - no matter how rehearsed this is an ironic take on the loftiness given to artworks using psychoanalysis.

In other words, the beauty is ironic, albeit done with sledgehammer subtlety.

It is ironic that the same country known for harboring U.S. draft dodgers provides a haven for celebrity political outcasts.

A humorous or ironic name piques the interest of others who will ask "how did you come up with that name?"

Ironic Gifts Irony plays a role in retirement gifts, including a new set of tools or college books for a new career.

This is still the case, which is why it can be considered ironic that natural redheads like Nicole Kidman and Lindsey Lohan insist on going platinum blonde.

This can be considered ironic, since it plainly demonstrates that young males are attracted to depictions of strong, intelligent women and yet those roles tend to be few and far between.

Try a voluminous skirt for an ironic look.

In an ironic and painful twist of fate, Stuart Chandler was accidentally shot and killed by his brother Adam in 2009.