Synonyms:
dry, ironic, ironical, wry
Meaning: humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit"
Usage examples
Affected an ironic incredulity
He felt the ironic rebound of her words
An impersonal and slightly ironic interest
"Savages!" Captain Nemo replied in an ironic tone.
"Good-morning, Mr. Myerst," said Breton with cold and ironic politeness.
"And could you kindly tell me what everybody knows?" he asked me in a gently ironic tone.
At this there was ironic laughter from the Bolshevik benches, and imprecations from the right.
An ironic picture came to me of the crowding masses of Quabos stuffed into the protection of the outer cave, waiting the outcome of the fight being waged by their warriors.
Only those who stood near to him noted a kindly ironic flicker of a smile in his eyes, as he saw, apparently seeing nothing, the poor little raked-up sorrows of his village of Beethorpe.