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Meanings of slightly ironical in English

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Usage of slightly ironical in English
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Put down my name for one! said Peter, with a slightly ironical expression.
Pelle the Conqueror — Complete
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Perhaps he resented the slightly ironical note in her tone.
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
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She always manages to be busy now, said Temperley in a slightly ironical tone.
The Daughters of Danaus
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A slightly ironical 'Hear, Hear,' came from Soame Rivers, who did not love enthusiasm.
The Dictator
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The last remark was in tones slightly ironical, and showed that fearlessly regarded the consequence.
Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life
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This intellectual, quiet, introspective, slightly ironical temperament would seem almost ideally unfitted for the trenches.
The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century
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The smile took on a slightly ironical edge.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
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The officer, who was no other than Stephano, bowed to her with a slightly ironical smile.
The Daughter of an Empress
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Mr. Hannen was slightly ironical about it, but his brows knit, and he began eyeing Veda sharply.
Mildred Pierce
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And he added, with a slightly ironical smile: A new dynasty is never founded excepting upon an affray.
The Fortune of the Rougons
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It was curiously detached-perhapsslightly ironical.
Delia Blanchflower
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He was rather like a university professor, courteous, with a slightly ironical twist to his very red lips.
Trapped in 'Black Russia': Letters June-November 1915
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Octave Feuillet, a shrewd, charming man, extremely well-bred and slightly ironical, thoroughly enjoyed the skirmishes that took place.
My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt
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His voice was slightly ironical.
Hilda Lessways
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If it was not approval, it was not condemnation; but it might have been slightly ironical, and that annoyed me.
Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1.
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Sometimes Edgar dropped in too and listened with his smooth, slightly ironical smile, while pacing up and down the room.
The God That Failed
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