Sentence examples for ironically but from inspiring English sources

Ironically but unsurprisingly, personal interactions at SXSW Interactive can be somewhat awkward.

(It would be nice to think that this is meant ironically, but that isn't her way).

You may have meant the question ironically, but any humorous device is risky in this situation.

He may be speaking ironically, but Rita takes his words at face value.

Hunt apologised for the remarks, claiming they had been intended ironically, but the damage had been done.

Hirst is delighted with the commanding pose – intended ironically, but recalling old master paintings of popes and princes.

You could tell me Thatcher sprinkled her memos with emojis and I'd be down at that Chelsea nightclub where everyone worships her ironically-but-not-at-all-ironically before you can say "Maggie's".

I think I was the only person in our house who watched it un-ironically, but how can anyone resist all that sweetness and goodwill and the fact that these two people clearly love each other?

I don't see myself ever using them un-ironically, but then I've come to accept when I'm not the target demographic for a thing.

It sounds grandiose computing, everywhere!–but ironically, a future of ubiquitous computing is one where computers actually go unnoticed.

Ironically, all but one of us were comprehensive kids who got good A-level results, so we were just the kind of people they should have been applauding".