How to Use unironic in a Sentence

unironic

adjective

• For all this self-awareness, Bleachers is an unironic rock band.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
• Down past mule trains and men wearing unironic cowboy hats.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 17 May 2020
• The navel-gazing and unironic self-obsession is — for old people — kind of amazing.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 16 Dec. 2017
• 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
• Men in flapping long coats clutched unironic fedoras against a biting wind.
  — Daniel Lee, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2018
• 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
• Zhao seems a far cry from the filmmaker who’d make such a rigorous, pointedly unironic film.
  — John Powers, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2018
• What is surprising is just how peppy and patently unironic Colors is.
  — Philly.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Thundercat's unironic approach to music is endearing at a time when everything is done with a smirk.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 9 June 2017
• 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
• Linklater confessed surprise at the unironic affection with which younger audiences embraced the movie and its trappings.
  — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
• 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
• There’s something admirable and disarming about an up-and-coming novelist being so gushy, boyish and unironic.
  — Ben Downing, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Following the usual pattern on Twitter, apparently unironic uses of the meme were quickly replaced by snark.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 4 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024