The soldiers, at first astonished at the proposed surrender, answered with laughs of ironical consent.
Redoubling his ironical respect, he rose, and seemed to say: "This time I am sure of my triumph!
Then, simulating an ironical reverence, he stooped and placed the necklace at the feet of the Gaul.
An ironical skit on the mammon-worshipping proclivities of modern society, in which several fair representatives of the smart set receive a wholesome lesson.
There was a dreadful ironical fitness about it: the conjunction of these things was brutally apt.
It was the voice of Dominique, whose face, illumined by a match, wore an expression of ironical disgust.
His manner to Hemmings was full of flattering courtesy; but his sly, ironical glances played on the secretary's armour like a fountain on a hippopotamus.
Walpole lamented him with an ironical appreciation.
With a prudence that was perhaps more ironical than any direct stroke at the sovereign, he attacked the minister who misled and misrepresented the monarch.
The House took the hint with delight, and the title of Gentle Shepherd remained an ironical adornment of Grenville for the rest of his life.
We read this title with some pain, not doubting but that our modern landscape painters were severely handled in an ironical satire; and we determined to defend them.
He bowed to her with cool, withering, ironical courtesy as he stood waiting for her to depart.
The Dop Doctor could hear that ironical clapping and braying five years off.
Mora's lesson was still ringing in his ears, and even if he had forgotten it, the air from Norma in jerky, ironicallittle notes not far away would have sufficed to remind him of it.
The fruitless, ineffaceable stain, the senseless fall into the gutter of a woman who cannot walk, and upon whom the ironical pity of the passers-by weighs heavily when she tries to rise.
After Edinburgh was taken, they virtually sold him to the victor, who caused him to be brought in bitter mockery to Hampton Court, where he was treated withironical respect.
He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid.
Or, perhaps, they thought it would be too ironical to get killed at the portals of safety.
In the storm there was anironical expression of their importance.
There was plenty of room and although the old man was often ironical Mordaunt imagined he liked to have him about.
His glance was quick and got ironical when he fixed his eyes on Jake.
He paused and looked down the table with ironical humor.
The fellow had a longer reach and looked cool; indeed, he seemed to be studying Jim with ironical humor.
He came up the veranda steps and gave Jim an ironical glance.
The ironical element, as everyone has noted, is fundamental in Pirandello!
Sometimes this ironical verbiage brings the blood to my face, and I am tempted to seize this cynical banterer by the throat and choke the life out of him.
With his inviting manner and usual good-humor this ironicalindividual smiles when he perceives me, and does not seek to avoid me.
And with this ironical advice, Engineer Serko leaves me to my own reflections.
He continues to greet me with his accustomed ironical cordiality, and with a kindly air that I distrust--with good reason.
This time you have divined the whole, caballero," said the colonel, without appearing to notice the ironical tone of the speaker.
Don Guzman, with a look of ironical amazement; "Are you quite sure of that?
The face got distinct, and when the liner's lofty side towered above the boat, Shillito, looking down, lifted his cap and bowed with ironical politeness.
Cartwright drained his glass and looked up with an ironical smile.
Now and then one saw a twinkle of ironical amusement and some of his movements were quick and vigorous.
During the dinner he exerted himself to be agreeable to Miss Day and Mrs. Rocke, but Traverse he affected to treat with supercilious neglect or ironical deference.
Pardon me, sir," he said with a slightly ironical accent, "I believe you have made a small mistake.
Valentine looked after him with an ironical smile; and, certain that Louis would detain him long enough by his side, he commenced the execution of the plan he had prepared.
The sachem redoubled his boldness, incessantly urging on his men, and insulting the whites by his shouts and ironical gestures.
Valentine said with anironical laugh, "you are no longer majordomo, then, Senor Don Isidro Vargas?
The noose tightened round Stalkart's portly waist, and, amid a round of jeers and ironical laughter, the Dutchman was hauled ignominiously but effectively on board the Impregnable.
And somewhatironical to Colombo was the applause of those fine ladies who did not at all understand.
Not so," he answered in English, with a burst of ironical laughter.
There was a certain drawing in of the inner line of the lips which, to a close observer, indicated an ironical bent.
And with an ironical bow he turned again to Doris, who had dropped her hands, but in whose cheeks the pallor still lingered in a way to check the easy flow of words with which he might have sought to carry off the situation.
His lips took an ironical curve, as he uttered the word.
The audience, whose attention was drawn through these ironical allusions, and who felt that an independent Synhedrion in Babylon would be contrary to the spirit of the Law, felt their consciences disturbed.
Antigonus, vexed at this apparent insult, expressed his displeasure to the Synhedrists by an ironical obeisance, which they returned in the same offensive way.
Francine dropped his arm "And fortune favors your hopes," she added, with an ironicalassumption of interest in Mirabel's prospects.
She asked, with ironical humility, if I proposed to honor them by still remaining their guest, after the disturbance that I had provoked.
I didn't know you were an artist," Emily remarked, with an ironical emphasis on the last word.
In an ironical manner and by using very personal material, Tchekoff paints more than anything else, life in its passive or negative manifestations.
Sophie, in ironical gravity; "it would not be agree able to meet with her!
Now, not another sense did I give him that name in but in an ironical one, just like lucus a non lucendo, or, in other words, because the poor creature is strictly honest and well tempered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ironical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: incisive; sarcastic; sardonic
