unironic
English
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[edit]unironic (not comparable)
- Not ironic; free of irony. Sincere or genuine.
- 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 242:
- Fenella remembered, that play with the unironic title of A Woman Killed with Kindness, had reflected a civilization a thousand times more complex.
- 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 313:
- Like some lost America, down to blue strata of cigarette smoke and the completely un-ironic deployment of the Frank Sinatra, […]
- 2009 January 11, Ken Tucker, “He’s a Good Guy, but He’s Not Very Nice”, in New York Times[1]:
- "M Squad," however, is both unironic and, thanks to Marvin's pent-up acting, bracingly modern.
Translations
[edit]Not ironic
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