Citations:ironically

supporting a traditional definition of ironically

 * 1864, J. M. Jephson, Shakespeare's Tempest, page 93:
 * This is said ironically; Antonio means the very reverse of what he says, viz. that Gonzalo's repartee has not touched him.

midway between a traditional and a nontraditional definition

 * 2006 August 26, in Billboard (volume 118, number 34), page 34:
 * Ironically, it was "The Kill (Bury Me)," the second single heavily plugged through the Echelon, that raised the album from the dead.

supporting a nontraditional definition of ironically "perversely appropriately, coincidentally"

 * 2001, Victoria Rivkin, Courting Tech Business, in ABA Journal, page 41:
 * Ironically, the one state that both Michigan and Maryland are attempting to emulate — Delaware — does not have any special cyber court to attract emerging information technology companies.


 * 2006, Shashi Tharoor, India: From Midnight To The Millennium and Beyond, page 180:
 * (Ironically, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the penury of Cuba has left socialism as a truly authentic Indian ideology, owing no credible allegiance to exemplars abroad.)


 * 2009, in Global Issues: Selections From CQ Researcher, page 151:
 * Ironically, it's often religious Catholics who feel most comfortable making the switch to religious Judaism, he notes,

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 * 1998 March, in the Indianapolis Monthly (volume 21, number 8), page 99:
 * Even worse, many of today's homeopathic compounds are so diluted that they contain only the barest trace of the active compound, he says. Ironically, in the '30s, Congress made homeopathic preparations exempt from regulation.