ironical in English

adjective

characterized by irony, sarcastic

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1. Whence our old word beldam, the more Courteous meaning of which is all but lost in its ironical one

2. It is tragic and ironical that his death came during a mission he was undertaking... in order to bring about cease fire in Katanga.

3. For the time that is past has been sufficient to satisfy the desire of the Gentiles, who have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, Carousings, and abominable idolatries [a strong ironical statement for emphasis’ sake].

4. 13 By using the ironical techniques, the novel has got rid of the bondage of language's implicative meaning and led the readers' attentions to a wider apperception space beyond the semantic meanings.

5. This evening I was invited to address a High-level round table, where I highlighted that it was ironical that we not only faced a global meltdown - but simultaneously staring at a total environmental meltdown.

6. 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick […] a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical Coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched.

7. But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical Coincidings, over the destroying billows

8. But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical Coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched;- at that instant, a red arm and a

9. But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical Coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched;- at that instant, a red arm and a

10. ‘Aristotle said Irony better befits a gentleman than Buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people.’ ‘Many a batsman has already paid the penalty for believing that Kirby's glares and stares were mere Buffoonery only then to find a stump ripped out by a great delivery or an edged shot finishing up

11. But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical Coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched;—at that instant, a red arm and a

12. But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical Coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched;—at that instant, a red arm and a