Crossword-Solution: IRONICAL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ironical | a. | Pertaining to irony; containing, expressing, or characterized by, irony; as, an ironical remark. |
| Ironical | a. | Addicted to the use of irony; given to irony. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “IRONICAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Expressing the opposite of what's actually said | 1 answer |
| Slightly twisted | 1 answer |
| Sardonic: var. | 1 answer |
| Prone to sarcasm | 1 answer |
| Perversely humorous | 1 answer |
| Meaning the contrary | 1 answer |
| Like Oedipus's curse in "Oedipus Rex" | 1 answer |
| Lightly sarcastic. | 1 answer |
| Humorously twisted | 1 answer |
| Humorously sarcastic or mocking | 1 answer |
| Exhibiting a wry mockery | 1 answer |
| Describing O. Henry denouements. | 1 answer |
| Full of sarcasm | 2 answers |
| Kind of funny | 2 answers |
| Humorously sarcastic | 3 answers |
| In a mocking manner | 3 answers |
| Wryly humorous | 3 answers |
| Wryly amusing | 3 answers |
| Rabelaisian | 5 answers |
| Not straightforward. | 7 answers |
| all Oedipus | 10 answers |
| Wry | 14 answers |
| Mocking | 22 answers |
| Sarcastic | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with IRONICAL (5)
With ironical politeness Hook raised his hat to her, and, offering her his arm, escorted her to the spot where the others were being gagged.
And to that had destiny subjoined this rencounter to-night, which had, in Bathsheba’s wild imagining, turned her companion’s failure to success, her humiliation to triumph, her lucklessness to ascendency; it had thrown over herself a garish light of mockery, and set upon all things about her an ironical smile.
She could lie there hour after hour in the sun and listen to the strident whir of the big locusts, and to the light, ironical laughter of the quaking asps.
Shall I see you at the Prince of Wales’ garden party?—No?—Ah, well, _au revoir!_—Remember me, I pray, to Sir Percy Blakeney.” And, with a last ironical smile and bow, he once more kissed her hand, and disappeared down the footpath in the wake of the soldiers, and followed by the imperturbable Desgas.
But, in spite of these signs of approval and interest, the mass of the people received me in silence and with sullen looks, and my dear brother’s portrait ornamented most of the windows--which was an ironical sort of greeting to the King.
Quotes with IRONICAL (3)
Human life begins by crying! Once a baby is born, it cries out. Maybe it cries in joy! So, the simple equation goes- we smile when we feel happy and we cry when we feel sad. As happiness and sadness are connected together like the body and the soul, we cannot remove sorrow or suffering from the human life forever. As long as life is present, gladness and unhappiness will ever be there. They will keep coming in one form or another. It is just ironical that we want to be happy …
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.
It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down....
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, The Atlantic, USA TODAY.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1951–2022).