147 adjectives to describe ironies

What a bitter irony of fate!

When my epistles come to be weighed with Pliny's, however superior to the Roman in delicate irony, judicious reflections, etc., his gilt post will bribe over the judges to him.

"With sufficient money to keep up the position," he went on, with the cruel irony of a slow-spoken man.

Again Phillips' thoughts were swept to the irony, the tragic irony of the scene in which he now was called to play a part.

He felt the little irony of the thing, and yet was quite unable to resist the comparison.

In looking over the list of them and reflecting on the part that they played toward one another in the past, one realizes that we have here a grim irony of history.

This volume, interesting in several respects, is one of the most charming examples of unconscious irony in the language, and it is matter of regret that our space does not admit of the abridgment of several of its pages.

" What gay and gallant badinage, exquisite irony, and interesting narrative, in the story of "The Cock and Fox!"

Good-natured irony flew from lip to lip in fantastic speculation as to probable promotions in case all the officers should be killed at the first go-off.

For the writings of a man with whom style is not the first object are as refreshing as his scorn for romancing history is wholesome, and the grave irony with which he records its slips amusing.

He is sometimes whimsical to the point of eccentricity, and his high spirits often verge on extravagance; but at his best he has the power of refreshing the reader with gentle irony, genial laughter, and love for human kind.

Marcel, who had repainted the picture ten times, and minutely gone over it from top to bottom, vowed that only a personal hostility on the part of the members of the jury could account for the ostracism which annually turned him away from the Salon, and in his idle moments he had composed, in honor of those watch-dogs of the Institute, a little dictionary of insults, with illustrations of a savage irony.

And our descendants, regarding our memory with the severity of citizens called to sit in judgment on an affair concerning the state, will allude to us with the scathing irony of a ruined son, when he speaks of the father who has squandered away his patrimony.

" "If I recollect aright," said Marian, taking up his bantering tone with a sharper irony, "Delaroche's martyr shewed a fine sense of the necessity of having her wrists gracefully tied.

Never has the condescension of county people to those less exalted in birth been described with more delightful irony.

" "You are indeed a friend," she said with languid irony.

"Of course I know that all that you say about position and work is mere irony.

"And so," he said, with mild irony, "even the maidens must dim their bright eyes with philosophy!

Latimer's voice was full of pleasant irony.

And in the sad irony of fate, the broad stone that covered his tombnow an object of veneration to the thousands that yearly visit the little churchwas inscribed as follows: Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbeare To dig the dust enclosed heare; Bleste be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

"When did you last see him?" Neither he nor they seemed to take note of that profound irony.

This dedication abounds with mirth and pleasantry, in which he rallies the Dr. with very pungent irony, and hints at the causes of his disgrace in that famous college.

" "And you're very sorry, bain't ye?" returned her former lover with wrathful irony, "I'll thank ye for my bank-book, if ye please.

'And who is to keep the joint purse?' asked Mrs. Smith, not without a touch of grand irony.

" "You!" He bowed in light irony.

147 adjectives to describe  ironies