ironical

• “Certainly ironical is the attempt to. bring in Biblical typology when Adrian, Clara, and Verney set sail for Greece.”

  Paley, "Apocalypse Without Millenium" Part 2

• “The first effect of this confession on Dick Marvin was depressing, but after pondering it a minute he laughed and recalled the ironical old rhyme:”

  The Apples of Hesperides, Kansas

• “That is what you might call ironical, is it not, sir?”

  Best Detective Stories

• “Sensitive to atmosphere, Jolyon soon felt the latent antagonism between the boys, and was puzzled by Holly; so he became unconsciously ironical, which is fatal to the expansiveness of youth.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works

• “Perchance he/she (I really felt it was a smarmy male.) didn't know 'ironical' was a real word in much the same way folks confuse the "irregardlessness" of it all?”

  no, i have time

• “Picking Bayh would be kind of ironical, seeing as it was Dan Quayle who jackhammered his dad's butt out of the Senate, sending him back to private life after spending some 30 years in Congress.”

  I call Barack Obama to account for picking another bland, midwestern pretty boy.

• “Bell's response "If it ain't, it'll do until the mess gets here" was, in the novel, exactly the kind of ironical humor that one would most easily associate with the Coens, and this is the kind of moment that would seem to gel most easily with their own aesthetic.”

  11/17: No Country For Old Men

• “Adding to these exclamations a kind of ironical howl, and gazing upon the company for one brief instant afterwards, in a sudden silence, the irritated gentleman started off again at the same tremendous pace, and was seen no more.”

  The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

• “They called him Eagle in a kind of ironical contempt, and it cut him more than anything else that they said.”

  Tom Slade on Mystery Trail

• “He bent his head gravely, with a kind of ironical tolerance in his manner.”

  The Master-Christian

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