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• s  characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is
  it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely
• s  humorously sarcastic or mocking
  an ironical smile

• I think it's sort of ironical that we end up like this.
• Still, he fits one description Fleming gave of his hero: "His face was a taciturn mask, ironical, brutal and cold.
• Lee: It is ironical but the authorities have left us alone so far.

• ironic
• dry
• wry

News & Articles

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• Letters to the editor: Health care reform, government assistance, shutdown, utilties fees
  Isn't it ironical that the astronomical annual increases in college tuition are a direct result of government subsidies in the form of grants and loans provided by the government over the years?
  Oct. 17, 2013 - The Burlington Free Press

Quotes

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• Marc Jacobs in Forbes
  We played a lot with high-end fabrics and then kind of stranger techniques on expensive fabrics, such as some things that looked like synthetics,Jacobs told reporters. "It was quite paradoxical and ironical to make something that is so...
• Arun Jaitley in Indian Express
  It is ironical that after being in prime ministerial office for four years the Prime Minister has finally woken up to the harsh and cruel reality that prevention and investigation of terrorism in India is on the verge of collapse,Jaitley said.
• Ian Fleming in Toronto Eye Weekly
  Then he slept,Fleming wrote, "and with the warmth and humour of his eyes extinguished, his features relapsed into a taciturn mask, ironical, brutal and cold."