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- verb Present participle of
ironise .
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Examples
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Note the ironising “so-called” to tell us “young-adult” is a label to be regarded with suspicion, (at a guess, because of the “adult” in there.)
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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Note the ironising “so-called” to tell us “young-adult” is a label to be regarded with suspicion, (at a guess, because of the “adult” in there.)
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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She laughed at the last sentence, ironising her instinct for fiction and the underdog.
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Haavikko, seemingly aware of such a danger, continues however, as if challenging himself, with increasing intensity and energies to propel forward the imaginative traits of the narration by ironising the fate of Sampo with various moral measures.
ONE AND TWENTY by PAAVO HAAVIKKO EILEEN 2009
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She laughed at the last sentence, ironising her instinct for fiction and the underdog.
The Guardian World News Ian Jack 2011
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In her present incarnation, the 1950s housewife is a bit of a joke: a self-ironising, Cath Kidston-clad figure of kitsch domesticity.
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In her present incarnation, the 1950s housewife is a bit of a joke: a self-ironising, Cath Kidston-clad figure of kitsch domesticity.
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In her present incarnation, the 1950s housewife is a bit of a joke: a self-ironising, Cath Kidston-clad figure of kitsch domesticity.
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2010
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In her present incarnation, the 1950s housewife is a bit of a joke: a self-ironising, Cath Kidston-clad figure of kitsch domesticity.
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In her present incarnation, the 1950s housewife is a bit of a joke: a self-ironising, Cath Kidston-clad figure of kitsch domesticity.
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