This usage can be confused with ironic or altered-usage quotation, sometimes with unintended humor.

With unintended humor, Mr. Trachtenberg names the 12 luminaries on display, and they turn out to include such dim lights as Millard Fillmore and John C. Fremont.

Reverend Callahan finds unintended humor in the "mental fog" and "huddle of meaningless words" which make up Einstein's geometry.

He said Rand's letters were "an important part of Ayn Rand's intellectual contribution" that are "filled with flashes of emotional insight, surprising facts and unintended humor."

In its combative back-and-forth and unintended humor, it sketches a portrait of the fiscal Al Sharpton, a man who claims to own virtually nothing but has almost everything he needs.

Recent attempts at parsing the harmony and phrasing for womanly traits have resulted in unintended humor.

(The unintended humor of the phrase "the whole guy" is a low point in an otherwise serviceable translation.)

Rachel Ulanet mugged a lot and sang her way into her role as Cis, Fergeson's spoiled daughter, her visible pregnancy adding unintended humor to her character's jilted-at-the-altar plight.

But if the creatures who took Ilna are what I think they are, she's no longer in the world we walk--" His mouth quirked at the unintended humor.