Satirically
[sə'tirikli]
Examples
- Thus equipped, I ventured in much fear and trembling to wait upon the great Mr. Murray, as Lord Byron always satirically called him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Don't addle their English brains with your classical rubbish, shouted Crispin satirically; if you do, they may wreck us. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Because one of them satirically levels her eyeglass at me? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Let it be a dark horse for once,' she said: 'if anything can be a dark horse to you,' she added satirically. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Naumann's pronunciation of the vowel seemed to stretch the word satirically. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This proviso might have sounded rather satirically in Will's ear if he had been in a mood to care about such satire. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Nicholas