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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of ironize.

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Examples

  • By such means is Dionysus ironized, and even a god can bear only so much irony.

    School of Rock 2009

  • By such means is Dionysus ironized, and even a god can bear only so much irony.

    School of Rock 2009

  • In the best modern translations, each essay is annotated, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, by small letters (A, B, and C) for each major edition, helping the reader see how each rewrite added to or subverted, emphasized or ironized, the version before.

    Why I Blog 2008

  • In the best modern translations, each essay is annotated, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, by small letters (A, B, and C) for each major edition, helping the reader see how each rewrite added to or subverted, emphasized or ironized, the version before.

    Why I Blog 2008

  • If we are now at a point where ethics and aesthetics are the same face in different light, then your query puts the question point-blank, and is there then some other fashion in which critique does not have to be cooly abject or pathetically ironized, nor sentiment enacted with a whippet's trembling self-regard.

    Avant Lyric, a few observations toward an essay, part one Lemon Hound 2008

  • The fragmentary aspect of the whole is made more obvious still by the hypotactic manner that prevails in each of the essays taken in isolation, by the continued attempt, however ironized, to present a closed and linear argument.

    Notes on ''At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...'' 2005

  • Appearing often in her early work, and folding easily into the overall mood of ironized grief, this kind of declaration of doubt can feel at times like a writer's flourish.

    The Unclosed Circle Kerr, Sarah 2007

  • In the article, the author James Poniewozik refers to Shrek and other recent fairy-tale films and writes, This is a new world of fairy tales: parodied, ironized, meta-fictionalized, politically adjusted and pop-culture saturated. . .

    Fun with Fairy Tales Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007

  • In the article, the author James Poniewozik refers to Shrek and other recent fairy-tale films and writes, This is a new world of fairy tales: parodied, ironized, meta-fictionalized, politically adjusted and pop-culture saturated. . .

    Archive 2007-12-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007

  • It approaches: the moment when Kevin Federline will give the most thoroughly pre-ironized performance in the history of music.

    The Fed promises to raise (heart) rates! | EW.com 2006

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