In truth, the Gods have played an ironic jest upon me.

He laughed a little at this ironic jest.

It was ironic jest on my part.

In these circumstances, Commodore Hansteen's efforts to maintain morale seemed no more than an ironic jest.

Mr. Hoffman has said that he "plummeted" to stardom, by which ironic jest I think he meant that the sudden eclat startled him as much as it did anyone else and that it was the fulfillment of no shrewdly conceived blueprint for success.

I thought of several ironic and unpleasant jests I might make, but neither her English nor her French would have been good enough for her to under-stand the irony, and, strange to say, I had no desire to hurt her or even to hurt myself.

Aberrance is the last label I would slap on Diller & Scofidio, even in ironic jest.

Given that after the war Stein commented that the only way to ensure world peace was to teach the Germans disobedience, this 1934 Stein interview has come to be interpreted as an ironic jest made by a practiced iconoclast hoping to gain attention and provoke controversy.

They put the laboratory in the control room as a final ironic jest.