How to Use unironic in a Sentence
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For all this self-awareness, Bleachers is an unironic rock band.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
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Down past mule trains and men wearing unironic cowboy hats.
—Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 17 May 2020
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The navel-gazing and unironic self-obsession is — for old people — kind of amazing.
—John Adamian, courant.com, 16 Dec. 2017
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The unironic embrace of something that feels old and ethereal also fits right in with the spirit of TikTok.
—Angela Watercutter, Wired, 14 Jan. 2021
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Men in flapping long coats clutched unironic fedoras against a biting wind.
—Daniel Lee, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018
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Cardigans went from unironic old-man garb to ultra-hip Kurt Cobain rock ‘n’ roll clothing to, today, a legit fashion choice for cats of all ages, and that means you.
—Josh Max, Forbes, 9 June 2022
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Zhao seems a far cry from the filmmaker who’d make such a rigorous, pointedly unironic film.
—John Powers, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2018
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What is surprising is just how peppy and patently unironic Colors is.
—Philly.com, 26 Oct. 2017
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The romantic songs Jordan and Laura used to parody are now an unironic part of the wedding rotation.
—Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
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For the youngest boys and girls, an indoor tent is a reasonable (and totally unironic) way to introduce them to the notion of outdoor adventure.
—The Editors, Field & Stream, 15 Apr. 2020
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Thundercat's unironic approach to music is endearing at a time when everything is done with a smirk.
—Matt Miller, Esquire, 9 June 2017
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Once upon a time, Stephen King wrote a fairy tale, although the prolific author takes a third of this book, or around 200 pages, to make clear that the title of his latest opus is entirely, enjoyably unironic.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2022
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In which case, his mission was definitely accomplished, the problem being that the line felt so unironic as to contradict what had come before.
—James Walton, The New York Review of Books, 21 Sep. 2022
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There’s something admirable and disarming about an up-and-coming novelist being so gushy, boyish and unironic.
—Ben Downing, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
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It’s always a bit of a surprise to hear contemplative intellectual Sting unfurl an unironic love song.
—Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2021
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All the while, players must endure listening to the characters express their travails in language that is gracelessly straightforward and unironic.
—Washington Post, 11 July 2019
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Following the usual pattern on Twitter, apparently unironic uses of the meme were quickly replaced by snark.
—Samuel Goldman, The Week, 4 Feb. 2022
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From the ’30s until well into the ’70s, high culture was generally portrayed by the media not dismissively but with unironic respect—and in such a way as to suggest that anyone with a public-school education could enjoy it.
—Terry Teachout, WSJ, 14 July 2021
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Critics praised Kapoor’s work for continuing the formal explorations of modernist sculpture while also citing his capacity for unironic spiritual suggestiveness.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
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