Sentence examples for ironic term from inspiring English sources

TV's influence can replace Australianism with Australianism though: "ranga" has replaced the previous, ironic term for a redhead: blue/bluey.

Some of the policemen that Leovy talked to had a bleakly ironic term for such "black on black" crime: NHI ("no human involved").

Royal is thus an ironic term, though not entirely, since in the prolific William T. Vollmann's new novel, the "whores," as he generally calls the members of the family, are given both humanity and stature.

"You entered your teens just around the time of 9/11, and now you're entering the job market — to use an ironic term for it — during the Great Recession".

Scott Dunlop responds to this by pointing out that "Housewife" is an ironic term and, in fact, most of the women featured run their own businesses – the Atlanta series, for instance, features a lawyer, a Grammy-award-winning songwriter and a model agency boss.

The author of more than 50 works of fiction, an indefatigable reviewer, a creator of essays, plays, diaries and, under two pseudonyms, psychological thrillers, Oates not only defies such stereotypes, she disdains them, as she tacitly acknowledged when she hurled Freud's ironic term of praise, "pathography," against biographies of writers that revel in dysfunction.

"He doesn't know anything about the hobbits or the deplorables" – using two ironic terms for Trump supporters.

"He would read out the player ratings and wind us up by saying things like: 'Ooh, Tizio, you only got a five and a half,'" says Fraschetti. "He would joke and comment on it in ironic terms.

They range from neutral to graphic traditional media photos shot at the scene of events, alongside images from "citizen journalists" documenting Israel's onslaught on the densely populated strip, where most of the victims have been unarmed civilians, to cartoons and comic pictures making the point in more hard hitting or ironic terms.

The move was, she said, precisely what was required of her on the day: a television attack, as she put it, using the semi-ironic term for a move that is made largely to garner publicity, with the twist being that there was no footage for anyone to see.

It's ironic, a term Colen now bears with endearment, not least while talking about things he says he's appropriated but that have always been his own; his relationship to graffiti; his shirts; his artwork's energy; the meaning of absence.