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    ironically
    [ adv ]
    1. contrary to plan or expectation

    2. <adv.all>
      ironically, he ended up losing money under his own plan
    3. in an ironic manner

    4. <adv.all>
      she began to mimic him ironically


    Ironical \I*ron"ic*al\, a. [LL. ironicus, Gr. ? dissembling: cf.
    F. ironique. See {Irony}.]
    1. Pertaining to irony; containing, expressing, or
    characterized by, irony; as, an ironical remark.

    2. Addicted to the use of irony; given to irony. --
    {I*ron"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {I*ron"ic*al*ness}, n.

    1. Sophisticated trial consulting grew, ironically, from the radical political movements of the 1960s and 1970s before finding its more lucrative calling in big commercial cases.
    2. "The number increase will ironically increase the numbers of programs," says Martha Stone, legal director of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union.
    3. Why is all this ironically happening to me?
    4. Thus, ironically, even if rewelding was done, the valve still might fracture.
    5. Mr. Chun, highly placed sources say, has become increasingly testy about the growing influence of Mr. Roh, ironically a longtime friend and the man Mr. Chun personally chose as his successor.
    6. Madison, ironically, has a reputation as a place where people "celebrate difference so well," Morrison said.
    7. It is the collection that is changing. The purchase of the Panza di Biumo collection (which, ironically, can never be deaccessioned) is consistent with Krens's stated desire to build on the museum's qualities and strengths.
    8. For ironically, when read from a weapons point of view, the gardening catalogs are way ahead of the street criminals in exploiting the weapons angle of the tools they sell.
    9. He was too short, too inexperienced and, ironically, looked too Italian.
    10. Negotiations with friends, ironically, are often more difficult that negotiations with adversaries, if only because expectations of agreement are high.
    11. Wealth, ironically, is the beginning, not the end, of moral demands.
    12. From there she moved into the thick of the battle for St Malo (the town from which, ironically, she had fled France in 1939), covered the liberation of Paris, and went on to the Haute Savoie front line.
    13. That's how he met MIT's Mr. Fredkin, who, ironically, was discussing misunderstood geniuses with colleague Marvin Minsky one day in the early 1970s when Mr. Gunkel barged in.
    14. In the ironically titled "Romantic Weekend," for example, a married man takes a young woman named Beth to his grandmother's apartment and tries to humiliate her.
    15. The sabotage of high-tension pylons by leftist guerrillas who call themselves, ironically, the Shining Path is plunging Peruvians into darkness and cutting dangerously into the nation's industrial output.
    16. But while U.S. policy has brought neither peace nor prosperity to El Salvador, that failure may, ironically, lead to the triumph of democracy here.
    17. But ironically, the more we become involved in these scenes, the further we move away from the art vs. life controversy the play is supposed to provoke.
    18. Some political observers think the trend is now shifting towards a large centre-right coalition - ironically resembling the LDP in its heyday - excluding anti-reformists on left and right.
    19. These words are always used slightly ironically.
    20. That came in 1951 with "Lie Down in Darkness," a sprawling novel influenced by William Faulkner and centered, ironically, on a young woman's suicide.
    21. The Reagan administration has urged reform of civil RICO, but ironically its own prosecutors have introduced new abuses of RICO on the criminal side.
    22. But ironically, the technical minutiae that give the book much of its authority also make it somewhat inaccessible to ordinary readers.
    23. Not only are the clearing banks - and ironically Abbey National in particular - taking an increasing share of new mortgage lending.
    24. The certainty of enlargement was reinforced on Saturday when - ironically, in the 'Arab Room' of the Oporto stock exchange - the EC-Efta treaty to create the European Economic Area was signed.
    25. Instead, Mr. Freeman reached a controversial accommodation with prosecutors based on a conversation about which ironically Mr. Freeman and not Mr. Siegel was the source.
    26. And, ironically, what the ballet company needs now is the Grigorovich of 1964: gifted, passionately committed to his art, and able to shape the company for the future.
    27. Those committed to this agenda speak the attractive language of "fundamental rights" (in all aspects of life except, ironically, the marketplace) and "equal dignity" for all.
    28. But ironically, the poll showed that 23% of respondents felt their personal finances had been hurt by lower interest rates, while only 19% felt they had been helped.
    29. At stake in the Hispanic community, ironically, are enough votes to tip the balance of victory in a close contest.
    30. This is entertaining; it also works ironically in a play about spectators.
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