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- adjective Not
ironic ; free ofirony
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Examples
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For the record, Chris Walton is correct if somewhat tautological when he states that this reporter's reporting was "unironic" -- by definition, reporting is supposed to be intentionally "unironic."
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We see a kind of unironic dedication that's leaching out of our lives every day.
Adam Hanft: Deconstructing The Cult of Sully -- More than a Hero, a Holdover 2009
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Generally, heroes of unironic movies do not get beat up by their imaginary friends.
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Generally, heroes of unironic movies do not get beat up by their imaginary friends.
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It's a pleasingly unironic predeliction: "I'm not an ironic person," she once said.
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Generally, heroes of unironic movies do not get beat up by their imaginary friends.
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It has one negative, applied to the subject “heroes of unironic movies”.
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First, “unironic” is not the negation of “ironic”.
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I remember the unironic title of a conference paper I once heard, “The Theme of the Sacred Mountain at Ugarit and in the Hebrew Bible: An Overview of Recent Scholarship.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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So, “Heroes of unironic movies do not …” does not contain a double negative.
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