The complaints are mildly ironic given the history of some of these branding campaigns.

It would be mildly ironic to find the tactic backfires.

He had asked in a mildly ironic but quite sympathetic manner: 'Where did you get the idea?

It is sentiments like this that make even mildly ironic people wince.

He found it mildly ironic that the keen-eared centurion had shown no sign as yet of having noticed it.

Briefly his mouth quirked, his expression mildly ironic; he still seemed preoccupied though, only half attending to what she said.

He has a skeptically friendly, mildly ironic conversational manner and a droll, filigreed prose style.

The stereotypical poem of the time was determined not to risk too much: politely domestic in its subject matter, understated and mildly ironic in style.

Hardy's amiable, mildly ironic portrait of rural town life in the middle of the nineteenth century is perhaps the strongest aspect of the work.

In general, such artists operate without government interference, given that their swipes at officialdom are mildly ironic or oblique.