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    ironical


    1. Ironical, I reflected, as I thought about all the chapters that


    2. That this incident should be the one that sours Judas is somewhat ironical, but it is a


    3. I found it sad and ironical that we need to be told to be ourselves


    4. benefits appropriate to the costs being incurred? All of this is ironical because it is both “very


    5. Ironical, isn’t it?


    6. He thought it ironical that a household of three had so much space compared to the cramped conditions that his large family lived in


    7. It was ironical he thought, for the mother of nine children


    8. "Dimitri, don't you think it's ironical?"


    9. "That is ironical, eh?


    10. It is also ironical that the nature of some of the slow growers and the extended

    11. However, as she was clueless about keeping her man away from their love triangle, she got reconciled to Sathyam’s ironical presence at her thanksgiving


    12. “Soon, we started missing Anand, and once when I said that if only ‘Rajan Builders’ were to be some ‘Imperial Infrastructures’, it would have been a fitting launch pad for his career, her repartee was that it was ironical that what served the uncle’s mid-career should be unworthy of his nephew’s apprenticeship; maybe what she said in jest was about the changed times, but I felt she was reviewing my progress card, and that brought the limitations of love not backed by money back to the fore


    13. How ironical it was that her moral decline should’ve assuaged my fears about her feared sexual fall; whatever, as if they served their purpose, my unfounded fears about her affection for him were put to rest in my mind


    14. “It’s ironical but real, and that’s sad,” he said


    15. After all those inimical twists and ironical turns as life went on for long without any hiccups, it appeared as if life had left with nothing up its sleeve to surprise us; so it never occurred to me that it could be a lull before the storm that was about to be unleashed on us by the inimical fate; like all of Gen-Next, Satish too was fond of fast cars; how often I used to tell him, ‘go west my boy for the roads here are deathtraps’, but he would rather prefer the comforts of the eastern life to the mundane luxuries of the west


    16. It is ironical today that so called


    17. tional celebrity, a status that ironical y is dependent on the


    18. It is ironical that he towers


    19. with negative force aroseno doubt from the ironical sense so often present in Spanish exclamations


    20. Ironical y it was her bogus tears that had got to him

    21. Ironical y his team and the opposition had assumed that


    22. the end ironical y the lies had been wasted; her family


    23. to be on the point of committing himself,a satirical or ironical


    24. ironical; cualquiera, therefore, has the implication of nobody


    25. It is ironical that the one time I went to California on vacation with my family, I did not know where Pipsy was


    26. Was he less discriminating, nowadays? Was it because of his age? How ironical that in his time of infirmity they should all seem to him so gorgeous


    27. It is ironical that a funeral should revive a longing that was nearly moribund


    28. A little ironical, isn't it?”


    29. existed, would he have been as ironical as that?


    30. Does one blame Margot for occupying herself solely with her amusements and pleasure? Of course, it is largely a matter of temperament and as such, it is ironical that a woman devoted so much to the act of procreation should scorn the role of motherhood

    31. It is, of course, ironical that I was able to do this because Safouat provided the wherewithal


    32. I thought, how ironical! The man I married, the man with whom I would live a lifetime was forced on me and was not to my liking


    33. That cover is so ironical!


    34. I feel much indisposed toward this examination of Campbell’s essay, because of the uncharitableness of men, who, without investigation for themselves, will spontaneously charge “egotism,” conceit, and other ironical terms


    35. His soft, round, rather snub-nosed face was of a sickly yellowish colour, but had a vigorous and rather ironical expression


    36. But this stirred Raskolnikov's spleen more than ever and he could not resist an ironical and rather incautious challenge


    37. he-he! You are an ironical person


    38. "I am lying?" Porfiry repeated, apparently incensed, but preserving a good-humoured and ironical face, as though he were not in the least concerned at Raskolnikov's opinion of him


    39. "Why, his teeth are chattering as he asks, he-he! You are an ironical person! Come, till we meet!"


    40. All were looking at her with such awful, stern, ironical, hostile eyes

    41. At he-festivals, with blackguard gibes, ironical license,


    42. You shall be treated to the ironical smiles and mockings of those


    43. hear the ironical echoes?)


    44. Always the West with strong native persons, the increasing density there, the habitans, friendly, threatening, ironical, scorning invaders;


    45. With peals of distant ironical laughter at every word I have written, Pointing in silence to these songs, and then to the sand beneath


    46. In his behaviour to me he was a perfect tyrant, he spoke very little to me, and if he chanced to glance at me he gave me a firm, majestically self-confident and invariably ironical look that drove me sometimes to fury


    47. He, being in a hard, ironical mood, was entertaining the family to a description of a service given in the Primitive Methodist Chapel, conducted by one of the well-known preachers of the sect


    48. The poets are on a level with their own age, but not on a level with Socrates and Plato; and he was well aware that Homer and Hesiod could not be made a rule of life by any process of legitimate interpretation; his ironical use of them is in fact a denial of their authority; he saw, too, that the poets were not critics--as he says in the Apology, 'Any one was a better interpreter of their writings than they were themselves


    49. How characteristic of Socrates! he replied, with a bitter laugh;--that's your ironical style!


    50. Spada turned pale, as Caesar looked at him with an ironical air, which proved that he had anticipated all, and that the snare was well spread


































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    Synonyms for "ironical"

    ironic ironical dry wry

    "ironical" definitions

    characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is


    humorously sarcastic or mocking