most ironical
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Thomas Mann is one of the most ironical of novelists, and his irony persists even when he deals in luminous prose with moral and religious problems.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anatole France, now translated into English, is the most classical, the most ironical, the most refined, of all modern European writers.
From One Hundred Best Books by Powys, John Cowper
The Princess proposed to Auber to give his arm to Jenny Lind, and to put her at his right hand, la place d'honneur, adding, with her most ironical smile, "le génie avant la beauté."
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
The minister's wife jumped up and dropped me a curtsey, a most ironical curtsey.
From Four Meetings by James, Henry
He was about to enter, when fortunately he perceived two waiters looking at him over the back screen of the window with a most ironical expression, and he sheered off at once.
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
