单词 | unironically |
释义 | unironicallyadv. Not ironically; without irony. ΚΠ 1922 A. Bennett Mr. Prohack xix. 222 ‘You will get used to it, Arthur,’ said Sir Paul indulgently but not unironically. 1923 R. Curle Into East 129 The town, like a camel in the desert, was living on its hump... Its huge fabric reminded one unironically of a whited sepulchre. 1985 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Sept. (Final ed.) (Book World section) 5 Perhaps the biggest practical difficulty with writing unironically..about ordinary, self-absorbed people like these is keeping their ordinariness and self-absorption..out of the actual prose. 2007 I. McDonald Brasyl 8 The 1950s' clothes she wore unironically in defiance of trend and fashion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1922 |
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