Example sentences for: ironical

How can you use “ironical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Why must people be ironical instead of ironic , or satirical instead of satiric ? The - ate suffix, originally a harmless suffix to denote causative verbs such as substantiate from substance, is particularly pernicious.

  • The papers agree that the previews of the Lewinsky testimony--videotaped portions of which will be played to an open Senate Saturday--show the young woman as a poised, ironical, occasionally even sassy witness who handily outmaneuvers her stumbling interrogators.

  • Or perhaps it's the irony of an ironical age.


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