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Ironical   /aɪrˈɑnɪkəl/   Listen
Ironical

adjective
1.
Characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is.  Synonym: ironic.  "It was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"
2.
Humorously sarcastic or mocking.  Synonyms: dry, ironic, wry.  "An ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely" , "An ironic novel" , "An ironical smile" , "With a wry Scottish wit"





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"Ironical" Quotes from Famous Books



... had his physicians to whom he turned—with the result that he 'slept with his fathers.' There is no more ironical statement in the whole Bible than that. We turn to our physicians because we have no faith in God. Materia medica physicians do not heal the sick. They sometimes succeed in causing the human mind temporarily to substitute a belief of health for a belief of disease that is all. But Jesus and ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking
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... Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles (1841), is still sung wherever those who love Germany congregate. But from this expression of the common German tradition Hoffmann went on to espouse the liberal cause, and he had his taste of martyrdom when he lost his professorship at Breslau because of his ironical Unpolitical Songs (1840-42). Hoffmann was essentially an improviser, and sang only too copiously in all the tones and fashions ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various
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... puzzling. He looked like a sober country gentleman, and this was not the type Lister had thought to meet. His clothes were fastidiously good, his voice had a level, restrained note, but his eye was like a hawk's, as Vernon had said. Now and then one saw a twinkle of ironical amusement and some of his movements were quick and vigorous. Lister thought Cartwright's blood ...
— Lister's Great Adventure • Harold Bindloss
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... This ironical sequence of things angered him like an impish trick from a fellow-creature. Like Prester John's, his table had been spread, and infernal harpies had snatched up the food. He went out of the house, and moved sullenly onward down the pavement till he came to the bridge at ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
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... pleasant and ironical glee, since it joyed him thus to gibe at one that had loved his wife. He—with his ...
— The Fifth Queen Crowned • Ford Madox Ford
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