All 13 Uses of
irony
in
Crime and Punishment
- His soft, round, rather snub-nosed face was of a sickly yellowish colour, but had a vigorous and rather ironical expression.†
Chpt 3.5
- ...and suddenly Porfiry Petrovitch looked with obvious irony at him, screwing up his eyes and, as it were, winking at him.
Chpt 3.5 *irony = saying one thing while meaning something else
- "But we know all who had pledges, and you are the only one who hasn't come forward," Porfiry answered with hardly perceptible irony.†
Chpt 3.5
- Have you tried?" he added almost ironically.†
Chpt 4.4
- "Yes, a capital thing," answered Raskolnikov, looking at him almost ironically.†
Chpt 4.5
- But this stirred Raskolnikov's spleen more than ever and he could not resist an ironical and rather incautious challenge.†
Chpt 4.5
- You are an ironical person.†
Chpt 4.5 *
- Dmitri Prokofitch was here, came to see me yesterday—I know, I know, I've a nasty, ironical temper, but what they made of it!†
Chpt 4.5
- Porfiry repeated, apparently incensed, but preserving a good-humoured and ironical face, as though he were not in the least concerned at Raskolnikov's opinion of him.†
Chpt 4.5
- You are an ironical person!†
Chpt 4.6
- The brief remarks that dropped from Pyotr Petrovitch between the clicking of the beads on the reckoning frame betrayed unmistakable and discourteous irony.†
Chpt 5.1
- All were looking at her with such awful, stern, ironical, hostile eyes.†
Chpt 5.3
- I haven't yet decided whether to take that money or not," he said, musing again; and, seeming to wake up with a start, he gave a brief ironical smile.†
Chpt 5.4