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• The great ironists do not merely use irony: they live ironically.From the entry ironist
• Ironically named “Ashvegas”, this Canterbury town is sometimes described as a haven for retired farmers.2023 June 15, Lorna Thornber, “Four of New Zealand's most underrated small towns”, in Stuff, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2023. From the entry AshVegas
• Ironically, the result is that this work is often both ahistorical and unsociological.2017, Jeremy Tanner, The Sociology of Art: Ways of Seeing, page 92. From the entry unsociological
• He’s only there for company, just meat in the room (ironically).2016 June 11, Zoe Williams, “Kouzu, London SW1, restaurant review”, in The Telegraph. From the entry meat in the room
• Ironically enough, this piece of space, filled with so many evanescent entities, is nowadays called vacuum.2013, Gérard Gousbet, “Understanding Quantum Mechanics”, in Hidden Worlds in Quantum Physics, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, →ISBN…. From the entry evanescent
• Ironically, the cheaper brands of wheat bisks have less processing and less salt added.2013, Graeme Obree, The Obree Way, page 116. From the entry wheat bisk
• Ironically, Flare did ask Lawrence about her views on body image.2013 December 16, Caitlin Dewey, “Two-year-old Photoshopped Jennifer Lawrence magazine cover draws criticism”, in The Washington Post. From the entry collarboned
• Ironically, and sadly, the alternative is not the case in dadless television families.2010, Shirley R. Steinberg, Michael Kehler, Lindsay Cornish, Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia - Volume 1, page 295. From the entry dadless
• And yet, ironically, the campesinos were reticent to embrace preposterosities unless witnessing the fantasmic for themselves.2009, Lori R. Lopez, Dance of the Chupacabras (The Dance Trilogy; 1), →ISBN, page 33. From the entry preposterosity
• For the correct term for such a condition is, ironically, hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.2008 January 10, “Scared of this? You must be lutraphobic”, in The Daily Mail, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2021. From the entry hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
• Ironically, if race were natural and essential, individuals would not have to engage in borderism.2000, Heather M. Dalmage, Tripping on the Color Line: Black-white Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World, Rutgers University…. From the entry borderism
• Veronica Petrillo's typical virgin is ironically similar to her streetwise actor, except for a certain added buoyance.1988 February 5, Tom Boeker, “They Sure Are Strange in New York”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry buoyance
• "Typical" is the best song on this nine-tracker, and ironically, the record itself is good, but typical.1985, Maximum Rocknroll, number 24. From the entry tracker
• Ironically, they inherited their ability to survive in these oxygen-poor elevations from their wild cousins with whom their ancient ancestors interbred.2021 May 29, Janaki Lenin, “Tales from the Transhimalaya”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 29 May 2021. From the entry Transhimalaya
• Carl sighs, and ironically wishes to unalive out loud.2020, F. H. Fischer, The Second Daughter's Darkness, page 90. From the entry unalive
• Here, too, it is Russia that, ironically, is in Zugzwang.2014, Alexander J. Motyl, “PUTIN'S ZUGZWANG: The Russia-Ukraine Standoff”, in World Affairs, volume 177, number 2, page 60. From the entry zugzwang
• Ironically, one cause of sewer service is overly stringent requirements that the process server serve the defendant individually, in hand, personally.2012, David Crump, Cases and Materials on Civil Procedure. From the entry sewer service
• Ironically, our Japanese-born colleague Seiji, who came from a culture that did not circumcise, had no problem with it.2011, Maggie Kozel, The Color of Atmosphere: One Doctor's Journey In and Out of Medicine, Chelsea Green Publishing, published 2011, →ISBN…. From the entry circ
• Ironically, verbatim note taking can interfere with listening attentively.2002, Michael Quim Patton, Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods, page 381. From the entry verbatim
• Ironically, already Chomolungma herself is showing signs of wear .2001, James E. Harf, Mark Owen Lombardi, Taking Sides: Clashing views on controversial global issues, page 5. From the entry Chomolungma
• Ironically, it was the encloser who had acted in an unbounded manner by violating the institutional boundaries of local community power.1991, Victor Magagna, Communities of Grain. From the entry encloser
• And, ironically the people that are going to do the accreditation and licensing don't even know what I do.1978, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, Drug Trafficking in and Through Hawaii and Guam…. From the entry accreditate
• By contrast, for Grice, one who for instance speaks ironically makes as if to illocute, rather than making as if to locute.2020, The Oxford Handbook of Assertion, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 367. From the entry locute
• Ironically enough, it was the anti-war stirrings of Dada that bore out its most immediate influence, first in Switzerland and then post-war Berlin.2014 October 30, Ara Merjian, “How World War I gave birth to the modern”, in CNN, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2021. From the entry berlin
• But he was required to do a team sport, so he compromised by choosing track, which ironically involved the biggest team of the season.2014, Eleanor MacLellan, Sole to Soul: Walking a Path toward Loving Accompaniment, page 97. From the entry team sport
• Ironically, this hesitation to condemn comes from a good place – the part of the British psyche that rightly prides itself on respecting other cultures.2011 July 23, Barbara Ellen, “Lucian Freud treasured the pleasures of the flesh”, in The Guardian/Observer, UK, retrieved 01 Mar 2014. From the entry come from a good place
• Ironically, this episode arrived just as we were collating feedback off the 'net and found, stunningly, you people love the briefing scenes.2009 August 11, John Rogers, “LEVERAGE #204 ‘The Fairy Godparents Job’ Post-game”, in Kung Fu Monkey (blog), archived from the original on…. From the entry competence porn
• Ironically, too, the wine was a yeared Bollinger of almost carnal subtlety and while Sutcliffe's stomach quailed his palate hungered for the treat.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 701. From the entry yeared
• Spanish ultraism, born as a movement with that document, would be distinguished, ironically, by its indiscriminate and eclectic borrowings from the other European vanguard tendencies.1981, Thorpe Running, Borges' Ultraist Movement and its Poets, Lathrup Village, Mich.: International Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry ultraism
• Herbert Read, ironically, called it Superrealism.1981, Arts Magazine, volume 56, page 154. From the entry subrealism
• Ironically — and young-lady-like — their daughter, Joy Ellen, 16, is more interested in ballet and tap dancing than she is in racing.1967 June 14, Panky Glamsch, “His Hobby Hard on Her Nerves”, in The Tampa Tribune, final city edition, 73rd year, number 165, Tampa, Fla.…. From the entry young-lady-like
• Ironically, there is some evidence that BAME parents want white teachers and leaders for their children, a form of ‘reverse racism’, suggesting that neocolonial attitudes persist through different generations.2019, Paul Miller, Christine Callender, Race, Education and Educational Leadership in England, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry BAME
• Cronenberg made a technoparanoid movie about Americanization while the NVLA sensationalized horror movies as agents of Americanization, but that very similarity ironically made Videodrome unwelcome in the United Kingdom.2013, Caetlin Benson-Allott, Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship From VHS to File Sharing. From the entry technoparanoid
• Ironically, it's the maligned shopoholics who seem to have it right, and they might hold the key to breaking the vicious cycle of loneliness and consumption.2013 August 7, Derek Thompson, “The Loneliness Loop: Why Feeling Sad Makes Us Shop and Shopping Makes Us Sad”, in The Atlantic. From the entry shopoholic
• When sentenced she sought to avoid hanging by declaring herself with child – ironically, given her favourite deception – but a ‘jury of Matrons’ found her not quick.2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 385. From the entry quick
• Ironically, the argument used today by Roadruck and other designists—that their teachings should receive equal time in schools—mirrors the one employed by evolutionists some 75 years ago.2002 April, Steve Jacoby, “Designer Creation”, in Amanda Boyd, editor, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 35, number 7, →ISSN, page 18. From the entry evolutionist
• Ironically, therefore, Deng shrewdly counterplayed his “American card” against the Soviet Union in order to forestall Soviet military retaliation against China for the invasion of their Vietnamese ally.1985, Francis Anthony Boyle, World Politics and International Law, →ISBN. From the entry counterplay
• Ironically, the US's obesogenic environment is one that societies through the ages have dreamed of: tasty cheap food in abundance, and barely a lick of hard work to be done.2004, New Scientist, 30 October 2004, page 46. From the entry obesogenic

Meaning of ironically

1. adverb In an ironic manner; in a way displaying irony.
2. adverb Used to draw attention to an ironic aspect of a situation being described.

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Questions about ironically in a sentence

How do you use ironically in a sentence?

Ironically is used as an adverb. For example: “My colleague ironically avoids doctors like the plague!”

What is a short sentence with ironically?

“Herbert Read, ironically, called it Superrealism.”

What does ironically mean?

Ironically means in an ironic manner; in a way displaying irony.