Ironic in sentence

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And while many examples of true irony can be funny, that is not the driving factor of being ironic.

A situation is only ironic if what happens is the exact opposite of what was expected.

When someone walks in precariously balancing something that shouldn't be carried alone, trips, falls, and makes a mess, it is funny, but it's not ironic.

So while the cake dropper might not be ironic, there are all kinds of situations in life that are.

Said to the klutzy kid tripping into English class and spilling his books and pencil case all over the room, now that is just harsh and verbally ironic because what you said is not what you meant.

Additionally, since you have the intention of mocking this poor person, you have not only been verbally ironic, but sarcastic as well.

GC: I totally agree with that, but I think that when he was proposing a huge government program last night that we used to call the bad s-word, "stimulus," I find it completely ironic.

CA: So, in the next half hour or so, we're going to spend some time exploring your vision for what an exciting future might look like, which I guess makes the first question a little ironic: Why are you boring?

If you're thinking it's ironic that I asked people to download another app so that they would spend less time on their phones: yeah, but you gotta meet people where they are.

Which is ironic, because I'm a capitalist.

It's ironic, because paleoanthropologists are renowned for having small sample sizes.

And I know that might sound incredibly ironic.

And in an ironic twist of fate, when I finally did get a role that would make all my dreams come true, it was a role that required me to be exactly who I was.

It doesn't recognize an ironic smile, or a happy smile, or a frustrated smile.

I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty.

So in an ironic twist, microbial life made way for complex life, and in essence, relinquished its three-billion-year reign over the planet.

Unfortunately, the ironic twist here could see the demise of humanity.

And the ironic thing about it is that they are not staving off the aquatic theory to protect a theory of their own, which they've all agreed on, and they love.

And I hate to be so ironic and sarcastic about it but it's the truth.

But life can be heartbreakingly ironic.

We talk about it in ironic terms with little quotes around it: "progress."

So I guess it might be ironic that my life path would lead me to a career of making music and writing for Blue Man Group (Laughter) and starting a school.

This type of movie, though, is not worthy of her- which is ironic, given that she's probably the only reason anyone would see it.

In the book they become pretty good friends especially on Fred's side, which makes it all the more ironic that he is he one that arranges Thorpe's downfall.

Most of the supposedly "Funny" moments are completely ironic.

The performances in this thing are so over the top and melodramatic that it's almost a farce of a Jane Austen story, which is ironic since Northanger Abbey is a sort of homage/send up of the early Gothic novel.

The studio will soon rerelease this masterpiece (I'm being ironic) for all to see!

Jean Claude Van Damme's movie career seems to have gone to hell in a handcart so how ironic to see him playing a character who meets the same fate in a literal manner at the very start of the movie !

It has an ironic ending which I won't reveal and it kind of rescues the film.

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