post-ironic

• postironic

post-ironic (comparative more post-ironic, superlative most post-ironic)

1. Exhibiting or relating to post-irony.
   • 2010 January 2, Pete Cashmore, “Music: This week's releases”, in The Guardian‎:

     Of course, in these post-ironic times, we love Bon Jovi but we don't love people who don't realise that they're Bon Jovi when they are.

   • 2010, John O'Connell, The Midlife Manual‎, Hachette, →ISBN:

     And why do you have the Aqua album? […] Wasn't quite the ‘post-ironic Europop masterpiece’ you declared it to be back in 1997 as you were sipping post-ironic absinthe out of post-ironic Charles & Di mugs (she'd just died) in that flat in Tulse Hill […]

   • 2018 November 3, Laura Pitcher, “Teens embracing Crocs is fashion’s latest so-uncool-it's-cool trend”, in The Guardian‎:

     So if you’re wondering what to get the post-ironic teen in your life this Christmas you might want to try eyesores like these thigh-high UGG boots, cowboy sneaker boots, and Nike “fanny pack slides”.

   • 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:

     At the beginning, me being an artist at the company had been a way for me to maintain what some people have called a “post-ironic” position toward my job.

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