"ironic" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The complaints are mildly ironic given the history of some of these branding campaigns.
- It would be mildly ironic to find the tactic backfires.
- He had asked in a mildly ironic but quite sympathetic manner: 'Where did you get the idea?
- It is sentiments like this that make even mildly ironic people wince.
- He found it mildly ironic that the keen-eared centurion had shown no sign as yet of having noticed it.
- Briefly his mouth quirked, his expression mildly ironic; he still seemed preoccupied though, only half attending to what she said.
- He has a skeptically friendly, mildly ironic conversational manner and a droll, filigreed prose style.
- The stereotypical poem of the time was determined not to risk too much: politely domestic in its subject matter, understated and mildly ironic in style.
- Hardy's amiable, mildly ironic portrait of rural town life in the middle of the nineteenth century is perhaps the strongest aspect of the work.
- In general, such artists operate without government interference, given that their swipes at officialdom are mildly ironic or oblique.
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