unironic

• un-ironic

From un- +‎ ironic.

unironic (not comparable)

1. Not ironic; free of irony. Sincere or genuine.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 242:

     Fenella remembered, that play with the unironic title of A Woman Killed with Kindness, had reflected a civilization a thousand times more complex.

   • 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 313:

     Like some lost America, down to blue strata of cigarette smoke and the completely un-ironic deployment of the Frank Sinatra, […]

   • 2009 January 11, Ken Tucker, “He’s a Good Guy, but He’s Not Very Nice”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 June 2013:

     "M Squad," however, is both unironic and, thanks to Marvin's pent-up acting, bracingly modern.

   • 2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Here’s a tip: If a group of people start using something as ironic hate speech, it will eventually be used for unironic hate speech. Don’t act surprised.